Browse Hierarchy ESH5010: Representing London - the eighteenth century

London in the eighteenth century was the first recognisably 'modern' city, the metropolitan centre of a global trading empire with a diverse populace and cultural life. There had never been a city like it. Poets, artists, novelists, playwrights, travel writers, satirists, and essayists were drawn to London as a fascinating and complex subject for literary representation. Representing London introduces you to a distinctive and important period of literary history, by focusing on how London's diversity and scale provided the crucible for new forms of cultural expression.