By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis

by Paul Fyfe

'Ohe banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents'. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the modern metropolis. By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis takes James at his word, arguing that accident was both a powerful metaphor and material context through which the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198834187
• ISBN13: 9780198834182
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"