Nine experts offer accessible and stimulating interpretations of John Gay's poem Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The text of this lively, funny poem about urban life accompanies the essays. Gay's wit, slang, stories, and rhymes paint a vibrant picture of London in an exciting and thought-provoking way.
Nine experts offer accessible and stimulating interpretations of John Gay's poem Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The text of this lively, funny poem about urban life accompanies the essays. Gay's wit, slang, stories, and rhymes paint a vibrant picture of London in an exciting and thought-provoking way.
* Introduction * The Project * London in 1716 * John Gay's Life and Literary World * A Guide to the Poem: Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London * The Essays: Connections, Differences, Disciplines * The Essays * 1: Philip Carter: Faces and Crowds: Biography in the City * 2: Susan E. Whyman: Sharing Public Spaces * 3: Alison Stenton: Spatial Stories: Movement in the City and Cultural Geography * 4: Tim Hitchcock: 'All besides the Rail, rang'd Beggars lie': Trivia and the Public Poverty of Early Eighteenth-Century London * 5: Mark Jenner: "Nauceious and Abominable"? Pollution, Plague, and Poetics in John Gay's Trivia * 6: Clare Brant: Artless and Artful: John Gay's Trivia * 7: Margaret R. Hunt: The Walker Beset: Gender in the Early Eighteenth-Century City * 8: Aileen Ribeiro: Street Style: Dress in John Gay's Trivia * 9: Susanna Morton Braund: Gay's Trivia: Walking the Streets of Rome * The Poem * Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London * Poem Notes
* Introduction * The Project * London in 1716 * John Gay's Life and Literary World * A Guide to the Poem: Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London * The Essays: Connections, Differences, Disciplines * The Essays * 1: Philip Carter: Faces and Crowds: Biography in the City * 2: Susan E. Whyman: Sharing Public Spaces * 3: Alison Stenton: Spatial Stories: Movement in the City and Cultural Geography * 4: Tim Hitchcock: 'All besides the Rail, rang'd Beggars lie': Trivia and the Public Poverty of Early Eighteenth-Century London * 5: Mark Jenner: "Nauceious and Abominable"? Pollution, Plague, and Poetics in John Gay's Trivia * 6: Clare Brant: Artless and Artful: John Gay's Trivia * 7: Margaret R. Hunt: The Walker Beset: Gender in the Early Eighteenth-Century City * 8: Aileen Ribeiro: Street Style: Dress in John Gay's Trivia * 9: Susanna Morton Braund: Gay's Trivia: Walking the Streets of Rome * The Poem * Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London * Poem Notes
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