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

Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature
ISBN-10
081421049X
ISBN-13
9780814210499
Category
History
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Author
Erik Bond

Description

gay yokes London's materiality—its bookshops, its churches, its paving stones—to abstract notions of truth and morality. Truth, gay seems to suggest, was inherent in London's material objects. To access this truth, one needed to read ...

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