Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London
Subtitle: John Gay's Trivia (1716)
By: edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman
Contributors: Brant, Clare, 1960-; Whyman, Susan E., 1937-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199280490
Subjects: Gay, John, -- 1685-1732; City and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century; London (England) -- In literature; London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Other titles: Walking the streets of 18th-century London
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-249) and index
Table of contents: title: The essays. Faces and crowds: biography in the city / Philip Carter; title: Sharing public spaces / Susan E. Whyman; title: Spatial stories: movement in the city and cultural geography / Alison Stenton; title: 'All besides the rail, rang'd beggars lie': Trivia and the public poverty of early eighteenth-century London / Tim Hitchcock; title: 'Nauceious and abominable'? Pollution, plague, and poetics in John Gay's trivia / Mark Jenner; title: Artless and artful: John Gay's Trivia / Clare Brant; title: The walker beset: gender in the early eighteenth-century city / Margaret R. Hunt; title: Street style: dress in John Gay's Trivia; title: Gay's Trivia: walking the streets of Rome / Susanna Morton Braund. The poem: Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of London