Literature in London

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detail from Hogarth, David Garrick and his Wife
The Royal Collection c 2000
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

 

The Pen and the City

London appears in various ways in eighteenth-century literature:

  • a coherent setting for the narrative: Defoe
  • an object of fragmented allusions: Fielding
  • complex of multiple imaginative worlds: Smollett

 

 

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