Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716) / edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman.

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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ISBN:

0191535702
9780191535703
9780199280490
0199280495
1281153826
9781281153821
9786611153823
6611153829
1435618173
9781435618176
9780191700149
0191700142

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Walking the streets of 18th-century London

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London.DDC classification:

828/.5 22

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PR3473 .T736 2007eb

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15.70
18.05

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Contents:

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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Summary: 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 Gay's poem Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The text of this lively, funny poem about urban life accompanies the essays. Gay's wit, slang, stories, and. rhymes paint a vibrant picture of London in an exciting and thought-provoking way. - ;Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-249) and index.

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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 Gay's poem Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The text of this lively, funny poem about urban life accompanies the essays. Gay's wit, slang, stories, and. rhymes paint a vibrant picture of London in an exciting and thought-provoking way. - ;Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-

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