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This article explores the narrative functions of domestic accidents in Victorian fiction. Taking Charlotte Yonge's The Pillars of the House (1873) as a case study, it critically parses how popular fiction engaged with competing explanations of how or why accidents occur. As a new understanding of chance, risk, and statistical likelihood in the nineteenth century began to reshape the representation of accidents, narratives navigated shifting concepts of personal misfortune, of providence and poetic justice, as well as of probability. In Yonge's novel, domestic accidents demonstrate risk-management at home, promoting a concept that complicates narrative expectations both of divine punishment and of conventional conversion patterns.
本文探讨了维多利亚时期小说中家庭事故的叙事功能。文章以夏洛特-永格（Charlotte Yongete）的《房子的支柱》（The Pillars of the House，1873 年）为案例，批判性地分析了通俗小说是如何对事故发生的方式或原因进行相互竞争的解释的。十九世纪，人们对偶然性、风险和统计可能性有了新的认识，开始重塑对事故的表述，叙事也在个人不幸、天意和诗意的正义以及概率等概念的转变中游刃有余。在永格的小说中，家庭事故展示了家庭中的风险管理，这一概念使叙事中对神的惩罚和传统转换模式的期望变得复杂。
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Victorian Literature and Culture encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts. The journal presents work at the cutting edge of current research, including exciting new studies in untouched subjects or new methodologies. Contributions are welcomed from internationally established scholars as well as younger members of the profession. The Editors" topic for 2005 is "Fin-de-Siècle Women Poets". Review essays form a central part of the journal, and offer an authoritative view of important subjects together with a list of relevant works that serves as an up-to-date bibliography.
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