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000742486 1001_ $$aCorton, Christine L.,$$d1958-
000742486 24510 $$aLondon fog :$$bthe biography /$$cChristine L. Corton.
000742486 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2015.
000742486 300__ $$a391 pages :$$billustrations, color map ;$$c25 cm
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000742486 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000742486 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000742486 5050_ $$aThe 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.
000742486 520__ $$a"In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. The first globally notorious instance of air pollution, they remained a constant feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s brought about their demise. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. As the city grew, smoke from millions of domestic fires, combined with industrial emissions and naturally occurring mists, seeped into homes, shops, and public buildings in dark yellow clouds of water droplets, soot, and sulphur dioxide. The fogs were sometimes so thick that people could not see their own feet. By the time London's fogs lifted in the second half of the twentieth century, they had changed urban life. Fogs had created worlds of anonymity that shaped social relations, providing a cover for crime, and blurring moral and social boundaries. They had been a gift to writers, appearing famously in the works of Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and T.S. Eliot. Whistler and Monet painted London fogs with a fascination other artists reserved for the clear light of the Mediterranean. Corton combines historical and literary sensitivity with an eye for visual drama -generously illustrated here- to reveal London fog as one of the great urban spectacles of the industrial age."--Publisher's website.
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000742486 650_0 $$aCultural property$$zEngland$$zLondon.
000742486 651_0 $$aLondon (England)$$xClimate.
000742486 651_0 $$aLondon (England)$$xHistory.
000742486 651_0 $$aLondon (England)$$xDescription and travel.
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