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Mystic London
Reproduction of the original: Mystic London by Charles Maurice Davies
Mystic London
"Mr. Davies, in the most plain, simple, matter-of-fact way, tell us exactly what he saw on each occasion. The result is a most interesting volume." -Athenaeum CONTENTS I. London Arabs II. East London Arabs III. London Arabs in Canada IV. Waifs and Strays V. A Lunatic Ball VI. A Baby Show VII. A Night in a Bakehouse VIII. A London Slave Market IX. Tea and Experience X. Sunday Linnet-singing XI. A Woman's Rights Debate XII. An Open-Air Tichborne Meeting XIII. Sunday in a People's Garden XIV. Utilizing the Young Ladies XV. Fairlop Friday XVI. A Christmas Dip XVII. Boxing-day on the Streets XVIII. The Vigil of the Derby XIX. The Wifeslayer's "Home" XX. Bathing in the Far East XXI. Among the Quak...
A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels
Peter Ackroyd is one of the foremost contemporary British “London writers”. He focuses on the capital, its history, development and identity, both in his fiction and non-fiction. The London of his novels is thus a highly idiosyncratic construct which reflects and derives from its author’s ideas about the actual city’s nature as well as his concept of the English literary sensibility in general as he outlines them in his lectures and historical and literary studies. It is an exceptionally heterogeneous city of enormous diversity and richness of human experience, moods and emotion, of actions and events, and also of the tools through which these are (re)presented and reenacted. Accordi...
Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900
This lively collection makes a compelling case for the importance of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature.
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