Map: SU I CCU ENGL 673
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Timeline: SU 1 CCU ENGL 673
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The Doom of the Great City
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Editorial Introduction
Editorial Introduction
Authors: Seth T. Reno and Allison Hamilton
“Old King Coal” and the Fog Demon, in Punch (13 November 1880). The Victorian Web.
The Doom of the Great City
William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (1880) is relatively unknown today, even among scholars who specialize in Victorian literature. There is little scholarship on the novella, and it’s not commonly taught in high school or college classrooms. Our hope is that this critical edition will change that. Doom's engagement with nineteenth-century science, environmental concerns, and the post-apocalyptic genre lend it much relevancy in the twenty-first century.