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1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: 'AMUSEMENTS SERIOUS AND COMICAL': The Early and Mid-Eighteenth Century; 1: TOM BROWN, FROM AMUSEMENTS SERIOUS AND COMICAL, CALCULATED FOR THE MERIDIAN OF LONDON (1700); 2: EDWARD WARD, FROM THE LONDON SPY (1700), PTS 12, 13; 3: ALEXANDER POPE, 'SPENSER: THE ALLEY' (WRITTEN BY 1709, PUB. 1727); 4: JONATHAN SWIFT, 'A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER' (1710); 5: Z.C. VON UFFENBACH, FROM CURIOUS TRAVELS IN BELGIUM, HOLLAND AND ENGLAND (WRITTEN 1710-11, PUB. 1753) |
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6: richard steele, from 'a discourse upon wenches', the spectator, no. 266 (4 january 1712)7: richard steele, from 'the hours of london', the spectator, no. 455 (11 august 1712); 8: dudley ryder, from diary (1715-16); 9: john gay, from trivia, or the art of walking the streets of london (1716); 10: daniel defoe, from the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous moll flanders (1722); 11: césar de saussure, from a foreign view of england in the reigns of george i and george ii (written 1725-30); 12: horace walpole, from letter to sir horace mann (july 1742) |
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13: SAMUEL JOHNSON, FROM LIFE OF SAVAGE (1744, 1781)14: ELIZA HAYWOOD, FROM THE HISTORY OF MISS BETSY THOUGHTLESS (1751), VOL. 2, CH. 10; 15: ANON., FROM LOW LIFE: OR ONE HALF THE WORLD KNOWS NOT HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVE (1752); 16: WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, 'THE SWEEPERS' (1754); 17: JAMES BOSWELL, FROM LONDON JOURNAL (1763); 18: PIERRE JEAN GROSLEY, FROM A TOUR TO LONDON (WRITTEN 1766-7); 19: HORACE WALPOLE, FROM LETTER TO SIR HORACE MANN (1 APRIL 1768); PART II: 'A MASK OF MANIACS': The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries |
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20: tobias smollett, from the expedition of humphry clinker (1771)21: george crabbe, from 'the poet's journal' (1780); 22: sophie van la roche, from diary (1786); 23: william blake, 'london', songs of experience (1794); 24: charles lamb, from 'a londoner', morning post (1 february 1802); 25: william wordsworth, from the prelude, book vii (1805); 26: [robert southey], from letters from england (1807); 27: 'public entry of mr hunt into london', the statesman (13/14 september 1819); 28: pierce egan the elder, from life in london (1821) |
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29: THOMAS DE QUINCEY, FROM CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM-EATER (1821)30: WILLIAM HAZLITT, FROM 'ON LONDONERS AND COUNTRY PEOPLE', NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE (AUGUST 1823), THE PLAIN SPEAKER (1826); 31: ROBERT MUDIE, FROM BABYLON THE GREAT (1825); 32: HEINRICH HEINE, FROM ENGLISH FRAGMENTS (1828); 33: THOMAS DE QUINCEY, FROM 'THE NATION OF LONDON', AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (1834, 1853); 34: FRANCIS PLACE, 'THE STREET CHARING CROSS', AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1835); PART III: 'THE ATTRACTION OF REPULSION': The Mid-Nineteenth Century; 35: CHARLES DICKENS, FROM NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (1839), CHAPTER 32 |
| Summary |
The Moving Pageant is the first annotated anthology of writings on London street life. It comprises nearly one hundred extracts from over two centuries of literary life, including pieces by: * Alexander Pope * Jonathan Swift * Daniel Defoe * Samuel Johnson * Eliza Haywood * Horace Walpole * William Hazlitt * William Wordsworth * Charles Dickens * Flora Tristan * Edgar Allen Poe * Charlotte Bronte * Fyodor Dostoyevsky * Octavia Hill * Beatrice Potter * Henry James * Oscar Wilde * Arnold Bennett * Joseph Conrad * H.G. Wells The volume assembles a rich and varied selection of this abundance of wr |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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English literature -- England -- London
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Manners and customs
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Straatleven.
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Sociale aspecten.
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London (England) -- Literary collections
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London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Sources
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London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
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| Subject |
England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Early works
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Literary collections
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Allen, Rick, 1944-
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| LC no. |
97038277 |
| ISBN |
0203008065 |
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9780203008065 |
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9786610567102 |
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6610567107 |
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9780415153072 |
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0415153077 |
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9780415153089 |
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0415153085 |
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9781134742745 |
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1134742746 |
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9781134742691 |
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113474269X |
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9781134742738 |
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1134742738 |
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