Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680-1780Guilford Press, 11.07.1998 - 340 Seiten This text provides a reinterpretation of London during a period of dramatic change, and presents ways of understanding the coming modernity through the transformation of urban landscapes. The book starts an exploration of the major theoretical approaches to modernity. This is followed by studies of a number of sites within London that demonstrate the coming of modernity. The history and organization of Magdalen Hospital, the paving and lighting of Westminster, Vauxhall's pleasure gardens, and other are presented and given novel reinterpretation. This book should be of interest to those interested in the history of London or England, as well as those with an interest in cultural studies or 18th-century history. |
Inhalt
Spaces of Modernity | 1 |
Debating Modernity | 2 |
Retaining Modernity? | 6 |
Reworking Modernity | 12 |
Contextual Histories of Modernity | 13 |
Difference Power and Modernity | 14 |
Geographies of Modernity | 17 |
EighteenthCentury Modernity | 22 |
Class and Gender in the Streets | 110 |
Dirt and Disorder | 111 |
Conclusions | 114 |
The Pleasure Garden | 116 |
A Tour of Vauxhall Gardens in the 1750s | 119 |
Commodification Commercialisation and Luxury | 122 |
Dreaming of Sex and Money at the Ridotto al Fresco | 128 |
Locating the Macaroni | 133 |
Locating Modernity | 28 |
The Magdalen Hospital | 39 |
The Problem of Prostitution | 45 |
Prostitution and Population | 46 |
Prostitution and the City | 49 |
The Histories of Some of the Patients | 53 |
Lost Selves | 54 |
Remaking Selves | 58 |
Order SelfReflection and Solitude | 60 |
A Simple Regular and Laborious Life | 61 |
Reflection Prayer and the Space of Solitude | 66 |
Conclusions | 73 |
The Street | 75 |
Theorising the Public Sphere | 77 |
The Imagined Geographies of Political Philosophy | 79 |
Bernard Mandeville | 84 |
David Hume | 87 |
Paving Westmister | 91 |
Representing the Pedestrian | 104 |
Presenting the City | 106 |
Imperial Vauxhall | 142 |
Gazing upon Madam Hartley | 148 |
Vision in Vauxhall | 150 |
Conclusions | 155 |
Excise Geographies | 158 |
Charles Davenants Political Arithmetic | 163 |
Shaping the Excise 16831689 | 170 |
Interpreting The Excise Man | 185 |
The Excise in EighteenthCentury London | 194 |
Conclusions | 199 |
The Universal Register Office | 201 |
The Universal Register Office | 211 |
The Vigorous Circulation of the Civil Power | 219 |
Tricks Villainy and Chicanery | 223 |
Conclusions | 228 |
Maps of Modernity | 231 |
Notes | 239 |
Bibliography | 305 |
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