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By accident or design : writing the Victorian metropolis /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fyfe, Paul (Paul Camm) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Accidents in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Accidents > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Accidents > Great Britain > Prevention.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A tremendous chapter of accidents
  • Accidents in the news
  • Dickens and the traffic of accidents
  • Industrial accidents and novel insurances
  • Street literature and the remediation of accident
  • Chaos and connections on the Victorian railway
  • Afterword : An accidental excursion.