Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716) /

This book will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London. Readers will take a walk along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating streets of eighteenth-century London in an unusual way. Nine experts offer accessible and stimulating interpretations of John...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Brant, Clare, 1960-, Whyman, Susan E., 1937-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Sujets:
Gay, John, > 1685-1732. > Trivia.
Gay > John > 1685-1732 > Trivia.
1700-1799
City and town life > England > London > History > 18th century.
Vie urbaine > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
City and town life
Literature
Social conditions
Stadscultuur.
London (England) > In literature.
London (England) > Social conditions > 18th century.
England > London
London
Londen.
Electronic books.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The essays. Faces and crowds: biography in the city / Philip Carter
  • Sharing public spaces / Susan E. Whyman
  • Spatial stories: movement in the city and cultural geography / Alison Stenton
  • 'All besides the rail, rang'd beggars lie': Trivia and the public poverty of early eighteenth-century London / Tim Hitchcock
  • 'Nauceious and abominable'? Pollution, plague, and poetics in John Gay's trivia / Mark Jenner
  • Artless and artful: John Gay's Trivia / Clare Brant
  • The walker beset: gender in the early eighteenth-century city / Margaret R. Hunt
  • Street style: dress in John Gay's Trivia
  • Gay's Trivia: walking the streets of Rome / Susanna Morton Braund. The poem: Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of London.

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