Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature /

Bond, Erik.

Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / Erik Bond. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 276 p.) : maps ; - Urban life and urban landscape . - Urban life and urban landscape series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index.

Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.

Open Access

081421049X 0814272207 9780814210499 9780814272206




Literature and society--History--England--London--18th century.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century


London (England)--Politics and government--18th century.
London (England)--In literature.


Electronic books.

PR448.L65 / B66 2007

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