Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716)

Publication Data

• Title Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716)
• Alternative Title Walking the streets of 18th-century London
• Contributors Clare Brant, Susan E. Whyman
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• City and town life :: England :: London :: History :: 18th century
• London (England) :: In literature
• London (England) :: Social conditions :: 18th century
• London (England)

Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716). ISBN 9780199280490. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.