The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (Hardcover)

In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient City of London within three days. All that had been familiar, settled, known, was suddenly and entirely swept away. Londoners faced an emptiness that was not only physical but also historical, social, financial and conceptual. The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London is the first study to situate the literature of Restoration and early Augustan England within the historical and cultural contexts of the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. Cynthia Wall relates the marked topographical specificity of plays, poems and novels to a wider cultural network of responses to changing perceptions of urban space, and she shows how the literatures of the period - along with the surveying, mapping, rebuilding and official redescribing of the city - attempt to reinvest the city with comprehensible meaning and create new spaces for new genres.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1999
First published:	1998
Authors:	Cynthia Wall
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-63013-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	0-521-63013-4
Barcode:	9780521630139

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