Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government Eighteenth-Century Literature

by Erik Bond

While seventeenth-century London may immediately evoke images of Shakespeare and thatched roof-tops and nineteenth-century London may call forth images of Dickens and cobblestones, a popular conception of eighteenth-century London has been more difficult to imagine. In fact, the immense variety of textual traditions, metaphors, classical allusions, and contemporary contexts that eighteenth-century writers use to illustrate eighteenth-century London...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814257100
• ISBN13: 9780814257104
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"