An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914 'Flower of Cities All' /

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• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hiller, Geoffrey G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Groves, Peter L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dilnot, Alan F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature.; British literature.; Literature, Modern.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Great Britain-History.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Popular Science in Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. The 143 extracts, divided into four periods (1558-1659, 1660-1780, 1781-1870...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• PART ONE. 1. John Lyly: London the Ideal City
• 2. Donald Lupton: London Bridge
• 3. Robert Herrick Laments Leaving his Native London
• 4. Herrick's Joyful Return to London
• 5. John Webster: The Decrepitude of Some London Buildings
• 6. John Donne: The Lively Streets of London
• 7. William Habington: In Praise of London in the Long Vacation
• 8. Philip Stubbes: Puritan Objections to Stage Plays
• 9. Shakespeare: "On your imaginary forces work"
• 10. Shakespeare: The best actors are but shadows
• 11. Thomas Nashe: "Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss"
• 12. Thomas Dekker: The Plague and its Victims in 1603
• 13. Sir John Davies: "Our glorious English court's divine image"
• 14. Edmund Spenser: Another View of Love at Court
• 15. Anon: A Courtier
• 16. Thomas Dekker: "How a young gallant should behave himself in an ordinary"
• 17. John Earle: A Shopkeeper
• 18. Thomas Middleton: A Goldsmith Gulled
• 19. Barnabe Rich: Vanity Fair
• 20. Thomas Harman: An Abraham man
• 21. Robert Greene: Beware of Pickpockets
• 22. Middleton: Roaring Girls
• 23. Ben Jonson: Pickpockets at Bartholomew Fair
• 24. John Earle: A Prison
• 25. Donald Lupton: Bedlam
• 26. Dekker and Middleton: Entertainment Provided by the Inmates of Bedlam
• 27. Andrew Marvell: The Execution of Charles I
• 28. John Evelyn: "The funeral sermon of preaching"
• 29. Evelyn: Persecution of Royalist Churchgoers
• PART TWO. 1. Celia Fiennes: Some Topographical Features of London
• 2. Daniel Defoe: London Surging in Size
• 3. John Evelyn: Charles II's Triumphal Entry into London
• 4. Evelyn: Bodies of Cromwell and Others Exhumed
• 5. Evelyn: Gambling and Debauchery at the Court of Charles II
• 6. Evelyn: James II's Ill-Timed Feast for the Venetian Ambassadors
• 7. Samuel Pepys Describes the Plague
• 8. Daniel Defoe's Imaginative Reconstruction of the Great Plague
• 9. John Dryden: London on Fire
• 10. Pepys' Buried Treasure
• 11. Defoe: London Before and After the Fire
• 12. John Evelyn: Some Unusual Proceedings of the Royal Society
• 13. Ned Ward: The Rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral
• 14. Joseph Addison: The Royal Exchange
• 15. Ned Ward: Crowds at the Entrance to the Royal Exchange
• 16. Defoe: Westminster Abbey
• 17. Samuel Johnson in Praise of London
• 18. John Gay: The Labyrinthine Streets of London
• 19. Gay on Pall Mall
• 20. Jonathan Swift: "A Description of a City Shower"
• 21. Tobias Smollett: Ranelagh and Vauxhall Gardens
• 22. Hannah More: The Bluestocking Circle
• 23. Ned Ward: Pork Sellers at Bartholomew Fair
• 24. Benjamin Franklin: "Work, the Curse of the Drinking Classes"
• 25. John Gay: Perils of London by Night
• 26. James Smith: Sex-Workers in the Strand
• 27. Daniel Defoe on Shoplifting
• 28. Defoe: Newgate Prison
• 29. Samuel Richardson: An Execution at Tyburn
• 30. Samuel Johnson: The Crime of Poverty
• 31. Thomas Holcoft: The Gordon Riots
• PART THREE. 1. Charlotte Bronte: London as Life and Freedom
• 2. Mary Robinson: "London's Summer Morning"
• 3. Charles Dickens: A London "Pea-Souper"
• 4. William Cobbett: The Great Wen
• 5. William Wordsworth: Alienation and Anonymity
• 6. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Noise of Life Begins Again
• 7. William Blake: "Marks of Woe"
• 8. Charles Dickens: A Sunday in London
• 9. William Makepeace Thackeray: "Going to See a Man Hanged"
• 10. Thomas Hood: Let's All Go Down the Strand
• 11. John Ruskin recalls a childhood paradise at Herne Hill
• 12. William Wordsworth: "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept 2, 1802"
• 13. Matthew Arnold, "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"
• 14. George Borrow on Cheapside
• 15. Frederick Locker-Lampson, "St James's Street", 1867
• 16. Charles Dickens: Going Up the River
• 17. Nathaniel Hawthorne: a London Suburb
• 18. William Blake: St Paul's Cathedral on Holy Thursday
• 19. Thomas de Quincey: Tourists Must Pay to See the Sights of St Paul's Cathedral
• 20. Charles Dickets: The Building of a Railway
• 21. Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank: The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace
• 22. John Ruskin: The Crystal Palace
• 23. Thomas De Quincey: The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Destroyed
• 24. Benjamin Disraeli: A View of Politicians
• 25. Anthony Trollope: Publicans and Sinners
• 26. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition" (1862)
• 27. Charles Dickens: A London Hackney-Coach
• 28. Charles Lamb: "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple"
• 29. Wilkie Collins: A Child's Sunday in London
• 30. Elizabeth Gaskell: Haste to the Wedding
• 31. Charles Dickens: Dinner in Harley Street
• 32. Charles Dickens: Bran-New People
• 33. William Thackeray: Wars and Rumours of Wars
• 34. Robert Smith Surtees, Sponge in the City
• 35. Herman Melville: The Temple
• 36. William Makepeace Thackeray: "Great City Snobs"
• 37. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Writing Woman
• 38. Leigh Hunt: A London Waiter
• 39. Henry Mayhew: Covent Garden Market
• 40. Charles Dickens: Bleeding Heart Yard
• 41. Charles Kingsley: The Making of a Chartist
• 42. William Morris: "Prologue: The Wanderers"
• 43. Henry Mayhew: "The Narrative of a Gay Woman"
• 44. Thomas De Quincey: "Preliminary Confessions"
• 45. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "Jenny"
• 46. Christina Rossetti: "In an Artist's Studio"
• 47. Thomas Hardy: "The Ruined Maid"
• PART FOUR. 1. Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
• 2. Henry James: A Saturday Evening Stroll
• 3. Lionel Johnson: "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross
• 4. George Moore: A Train Journey
• 5. Emily Constance Cook: The Respectable Grime of Ages
• 6. Henry James: The Appeal of the Great City
• 7. Oscar Wilde, "Impression du Matin"
• 8. H G Wells: An evening in Hyde Park
• 9. Robert Bridges, "London Snow"
• 10. Oscar Wilde: "London Models"
• 11. Vernon Lee: the mazes of aesthetic London
• 12. George Moore: Bohemian Life in Mayfair
• 13. George Gissing: A Struggling Writer
• 14. William S. Gilbert: The House of Peers
• 15. Anthony Trollope: The House of Commons
• 16. George Gissing: The Crystal Palace Park
• 17. Arnold Bennett: A London Bank
• 18. C W Murphy: "I live in Trafalgar Square"
• 19. Henry James: A Steamer down the Thames
• 20. Joseph Conrad: Sunset on the Thames
• 21. George Eliot: A House by the Thames
• 22. Margaret Oliphant: The Painter and the Philistine
• 23. George Gissing: The Women's Movement
• 24. Mary Augusta Ward: A Politician and his Wife
• 25. Lady St Helier: Politics and the Music-Hall
• 26. George and Weedon Grossmith: Nobody is Invited to a Ball
• 27. George Gissing: Supreme Ugliness in the Caledonian Road
• 28. Joseph Conrad: Bombs and Pornography
• 29. Israel Zangwill: A Child of Ghetto
• 30. D H Lawrence: Outcasts of Waterloo Bridge
• 31. Amy Levy: "Ballade of an Omnibus"
• 32. Arthur Morrison: A Slum
• 33. Baroness Emmuska Orczy: Death on the Tube
• 34. Virginia Woolf: Leaving London
• 35. Richard Jeffries: Drowned London
• 36. Beatrix Potter: Town Mouse and Country Mouse.