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Corton, Christine L., 1958-
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Fog -- England -- London.
Air -- Pollution -- London (England)
Cultural property -- England -- London.
London (England) -- Climate.
London (England) -- History.
London (England) -- Description and travel.
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Corton, Christine L., 1958-
Fog -- England -- London.
Air -- Pollution -- London (England)
Cultural property -- England -- London.
London (England) -- Climate.
London (England) -- History.
London (England) -- Description and travel.
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London fog : the biography / Christine L. Corton.
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Corton, Christine L., 1958-
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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551
.575
C831L
Subjects
Fog -- England -- London.
Air -- Pollution -- London (England)
Cultural property -- England -- London.
London (England) -- Climate.
London (England) -- History.
London (England) -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780674088351 (hc.)
Description:
391 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The birth of London fog -- Dickensian gloom -- King Fog -- Women in danger -- The view from abroad -- London apocalypse -- Land of the living dead -- The last gasp -- Conclusion : the death of London fog.
Summary:
The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. The first globally notorious instance of air pollution, they remained a constant feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s brought about their demise. The story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. As the city grew, smoke from millions of domestic fires, combined with industrial emissions and naturally occurring mists, seeped into homes, shops, and public buildings in dark yellow clouds of water droplets, soot, and sulphur dioxide. The fogs were sometimes so thick that people could not see their own feet. By the time London's fogs lifted in the second half of the twentieth century, they had changed urban life. Fogs had created worlds of anonymity that shaped social relations, providing a cover for crime, and blurring moral and social boundaries. They had been a gift to writers, appearing famously in the works of Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and T. S. Eliot. Whistler and Monet painted London fogs with a fascination other artists reserved for the clear light of the Mediterranean. Christine L. Corton is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
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