Romantic Metropolis
Subtitle: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 17801840
Contributors: James Chandler (Editor); Kevin Gilmartin (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521839013
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Great Britain; Eastern European; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Eastern Europe; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; 19th century; 18th century; English literature; Romanticism
First sentence: On August 15, 1822, George IV disembarked at the port of Leith, near Edinburgh, for a two-week-long state visit to Scotland - the first by a reigning monarch since the 1707 Treaty of Union.