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" Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : "
edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman.
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BL
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1035779
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b790149
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Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : : John Gay's Trivia (1716) /\ edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (x, 256 pages) :: illustrations
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0191535702
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: 0191700142
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: 0199280495
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: 1435618173
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: 9780191535703
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: 9780191700149
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: 9780199280490
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: 9781281153821
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: 9781435618176
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: 9786611153823
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0199280495
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019928072X
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9780199280728
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-249) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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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Gay, John,1685-1732., Trivia.
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Gay-- John-- 1685-1732-- Trivia.
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City and town life-- England-- London-- History-- 18th century.
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City and town life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Social conditions.
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Stadscultuur.
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London (England), In literature.
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London (England), Social conditions, 18th century.
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England, London.
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Londen.
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London
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| Dewey Classification
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828/.5
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| LC Classification
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PR3473.T736 2007eb
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15.70bcl
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18.05bcl
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Brant, Clare,1960-
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Whyman, Susan E.,1937-
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| Parallel Title
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Walking the streets of 18th-century London
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