Alison O'Byrne

The Art of Walking in London

Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

"Considering how the mobility afforded by walking made possible the various surveys and tours that characterized descriptions of the capital during the long eighteenth century, this study engages with accounts across genres to demonstrate how walking shaped representations of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century city"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781009524032
• ISBN-10: 1009524038
• Artikelnr.: 72865491

Autorenporträt

Alison O'Byrne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York. She has published widely on representations of the city in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is co-editor (with Jim Watt) of Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: negotiating a city shower
1. Mobility and spectatorship in the early eighteenth-century city: the art of walking the streets of London
2. Promenading the mall in St. James's park
3. Imagining the stranger: the tourist in the streets of eighteenth-century London
4. London spied
5. Metropolitan pleasures and grievances: reimagining the art of walking the streets of London
Conclusion: 'Much has chang'd since Trivia trod with Gay'
Bibliography
Index.