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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524686603321

Autore

Bond Erik

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007

©2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 276 p.) : : maps ;

Collana

Urban life and urban landscape

Disciplina

820.9/32421

Soggetti

Literature and society - England - London - History - 18th century

City and town life in literature

Cities and towns in literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

London (England) Politics and government 18th century

London (England) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.