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Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716)

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-
eBook, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Electronic books
1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations
9780191535703, 9780199280490, 9781281153821, 9786611153823, 9781435618176, 9780191700149, 0191535702, 0199280495, 1281153826, 6611153829, 1435618173, 0191700142
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English