Description |
1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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 |
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- |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-249) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Trivia
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Gay -- John -- 1685-1732 -- Trivia. |
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City and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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City and town life
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Literature
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Social conditions
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Stadscultuur.
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London (England) -- In literature
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London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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England -- London
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London
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Londen.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Brant, Clare, 1960-
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Whyman, Susan E., 1937-
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ISBN |
0191535702 |
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9780191535703 |
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9780199280490 |
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0199280495 |
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1281153826 |
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9781281153821 |
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9786611153823 |
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6611153829 |
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1435618173 |
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9781435618176 |
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9780191700149 |
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0191700142 |
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