By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis - Fyfe, Paul (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780198732334 - March 19, 2015
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By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis


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By Accident or Design explains how and why the Victorians were fascinated by accidents, including omnibus collisions, fires, and railway crashes, and how these accidents offered a way to describe how large, complex things like cities might grow and change.


256 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 19, 2015
ISBN13 9780198732334
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 258
Dimensions 223 × 148 × 24 mm   ·   434 g

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