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

Bond, Erik.

Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / Erik Bond. - 1 online resource (276 pages): maps - Urban life and urban landscape . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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Politics and government
Literature and society.
Literature.
English literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
HISTORY--General.
Litterature et societe--Histoire--Angleterre--Londres--18e siecle.
Vie urbaine dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--18e siecle
Literature and society--History--England--London--18th century.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century


England--London.
London (England)--Politics and government--18th century.
London (England)--In literature.


History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.