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Reading London : urban speculation and imaginative government in eighteenth-century literature

Bond, Erik. (Author).

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  • OCLC: ocn608103280
  • ISBN: 0814272207
  • ISBN: 9780814272206
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 276 pages) : maps.
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  • Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.

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Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index.
Contents: Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.
Subject: Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
London (England) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
City and town life in literature
Cities and towns in literature
London (England) -- In literature
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

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