While seventeenth-century London may immediately evoke images of Shakespeare and thatched roof-tops and nineteenth-century London may call forth images of Dickens and cobblestones, a popular conception of Eighteenth-Century London has been more difficult to imagine.
In fact, the immense variety of textual traditions, metaphors, classical allusions, and contemporary contexts that Eighteenth-Century writers use to illustrate Eighteenth-Century London may make Eighteenth-Century London seem more st.
While seventeenth-century London may immediately evoke images of Shakespeare and thatched roof-tops and nineteenth-century London may call forth images of Dickens and cobblestones, a popular conception of Eighteenth-Century London has been more difficult to imagine