During the period covered by this book - from the beginning of the
18th century to World War I - London was unique in its immensity,
and supremely representative of the modern urban world in the
making. Its overall size, its rate of growth, and the increasingly
dense and diverse crowds that flowed through its streets, were
paralleled in the vast contemporary outpouring of writing about
this great city. The varied selection of this abundance of writing
presented in this volume incorporates work by Daniel Defoe, James
Boswell, Horace Walpole, Flora Tristan, Charlotte Bronte, Charles
Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, and many others.
Public and private, documentary and imaginative, the writings evoke
the physical and social atmosphere and the cultural life of
London's streets and other sites of ceremony and popular assembly.
They represent many genres and styles of writing, including
street-ballads and music-hall songs, excerpts from novels, epic and
mock-epic poems, and accounts of riots, executions,
sword-and-buckler fights, and state pageants and processions. The
book includes an editor's introduction, illustrations, and
biographical and critical commentaries on each o
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