Vol. 33, No. 4, December 2016 uncovers is the very gradual willingness to acknowledge domestic use of coal as a chief culprit in pollution’s causation. For decades public opinion resisted, wanting instead to blame industry in hopes that the emotional center of the home, the open fire in the hearth, would not have to be legislated. However, not until smokeless fuel was mandated in London homes did the situation begin to change significantly. The German architect Hermann Muthesius understood at the turn of the twentieth century in his book on the English house that the private house with its open fire on the hearth was at the center of English identity. This was what had to be overcome in order to defeat fog’s stranglehold on air purity. Although Corton’s chosen method of tracing a pea souper’s impact through fiction is less explanatory than her direct analysis, the ambition to see what metaphor can reveal yields a well organized history that conveys the changing emotional and psychological climate accompanying London’s devastating fogs, with their implacable toxicity and frightening ambiguity.

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对话狄更斯。发明与转型编辑。作者：Allan C. Christensen、Francesco Marroni 和 David Paroissien

卷。2016 年 12 月第 33 期第 4 期揭示了人们逐渐愿意承认国内使用煤炭是造成污染的罪魁祸首。几十年来，舆论一直抵制，转而指责工业，希望家庭的情感中心，壁炉里的明火，不必被立法。然而，直到伦敦家庭强制使用无烟燃料，情况才开始发生显着变化。德国建筑师赫尔曼·穆特修斯 (Hermann Muthesius) 在 20 世纪初在他关于英国房屋的书中了解到，壁炉上有明火的私人住宅是英国身份的中心。为了打败雾对空气纯度的束缚，必须克服这一点。