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By Accident or Design

By Accident or Design

Paul Fyfe

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'Takes Henry James' observation of London in 1888 at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the Victorians arrested the paradoxes of metropolitan modernity and reconfigured understandings of form and change.

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OL Work ID
OL21094204W

Subjects

AccidentsGreat britain, social conditionsAccidents in literaturePreventionHistory

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