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Author:

Bond, Erik

Title:

Reading London : urban speculation and imaginative government in eighteenth-century literature / Erik Bond.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxvi, 276 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
London (England)--In literature.
Cities and towns in literature
City and town life in literature
London (England)--Politics and government--18th century.
Literature and society--London--London--History--18th century.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape

ISBN:

0814291295 (cd-rom)
9780814291290 (cd-rom)
081421049X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210499 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)74987637

LCCN:

2006035702

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)