Reading London Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature /
Erik Bond.
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 276 p.) : maps ;
- Urban life and urban landscape .
- Urban life and urban landscape series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index.
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.
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Literature and society--History--England--London--18th century. City and town life in literature. Cities and towns in literature. English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
London (England)--Politics and government--18th century. London (England)--In literature.