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

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Brant, Clare, 1960-, Whyman, Susan E., 1937-
Other title:Walking the streets of 18th-century London.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Gay, John, > 1685-1732. > Trivia.
London (England) > In literature.
City and town life > England > London > History > 18th century.
London (England) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Gay > John > 1685-1732 > Trivia.
City and town life.
Literature.
Social conditions.
England > London.
History.
Table of 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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