By Accident Or Design PDF
By:Paul Fyfe
Published on 2015 by Oxford University Press, USA
By Accident or Design explains how and why the Victorians were fascinated by accidents, including omnibus collisions, cab wrecks, pedestrian mishaps, fires, and railway crashes. These accidents seemed especially to characterize and perhaps explain the explosive growth of nineteenth-century cities. In the hands of writers like Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, as well as a host of newspaper and periodical writers, theseaccidents offered a way of describing how large, complex things like cities might grow and change: not by an eighteenth-century version of Providential design, but by chance processes that anticipate therelativity thinking of the century to come. Thus, this book claims that the Victorian city deserves to be included in histories of chance, randomness, and probability thinking. So too does this book chart alternative literary histories--accidental as much as designed--for the novels, newspapers, illustrated periodicals, and printed ephemera which grappled with the Victorian city.
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