Paul Fyfe is Associate Professor in the Department of English and program faculty in the Communications, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University. He earned a PhD from the University of Virginia and developed specialties in Victorian literature as well as book and media history. At NC State, he teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature, technologies of texts and writing, and digital humanities.

Review from previous edition The material here is fascinating ... [Fyfe] has provided readers with stimulating new ways of looking at a broad literary spectrum and that is a considerable achievement.

• Introduction 1: Accidents in the News 2: Dickens and the Traffic of Accidents 3: Industrial Accidents and Novel Insurances 4: Street Literature and the Remediation of Accident 5: Chaos and Connections on the Victorian Railway Afterword: An Accidental Excursion

Paul Fyfe is Associate Professor in the Department of English and program faculty in the Communications, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University. He earned a PhD from the University of Virginia and developed specialties in Victorian literature as well as book and media history. At NC State, he teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature, technologies of texts and writing, and digital humanities.

Review from previous edition The material here is fascinating ... [Fyfe] has provided readers with stimulating new ways of looking at a broad literary spectrum and that is a considerable achievement.

• Introduction 1: Accidents in the News 2: Dickens and the Traffic of Accidents 3: Industrial Accidents and Novel Insurances 4: Street Literature and the Remediation of Accident 5: Chaos and Connections on the Victorian Railway Afterword: An Accidental Excursion