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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-249) and index.
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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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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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Subject Gay, John, 1685-1732. Trivia.
City and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
City and town life.
England -- London.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject London (England) -- In literature.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Brant, Clare, 1960-
Whyman, Susan E., 1937-
Added Title Walking the streets of 18th-century London
Other Form: Print version: Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2007028192
ISBN 0191535702 (electronic book)
9780191535703 (electronic book)
9780199280490 (Cloth)
0199280495 (Cloth)
1281153826
9781281153821
9786611153823
6611153829
0199280495 (Cloth)
Standard No. 9786611153823