The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700-1914

by Allen,Rick

• ISBN13: 9780415153072
• ISBN10: 0415153077
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the First World War, London was unique in its immensity. Its overall size, growth rate, and the increasingly dense crowds were matched by the outpouring of writing about this great city. The Moving Pageantassembles a varied selection of writing on London, including pieces which evoke the physical and social atmosphere of the bustling streets of London. It is arranged chronologically and has a range of writers from the famous to the forgotten, including Daniel Defoe, Oscar Wilde, and Charlotte Bronte, among others. Providing a contextual and analytical overview of the material, Richard Allen's introduction is particularly insightful. A truly unique collection,The Moving Pageantis the first annotated anthology to appear on London street-life that has the historical range, diversity of material and informative commentary that is included here.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x	(2)
Preface	xii	(1)
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(28)
PART I `Amusements Serious and Comical'	29	(42)
Tom Brown
1 Amusements Serious and Comical (1700)	29	(2)
Edward Ward
2 The London Spy (1700)	31	(2)
Alexander Pope
3 `Spenser: The Alley' (by 1709)	33	(2)
Jonathan Swift
4 `A Description of a City Shower' (1710)	35	(2)
Z.C. von Uffenbach
5 from Curious Travels in Belgium, Holland and England (1710-11)	37	(3)
Richard Steele
6 [`A Discourse Upon Wenches'], The Spectator (1712)	40	(1)
Richard Steele
7 [`The Hours of London'], The Spectator (1712)	41	(3)
Dudley Ryder
8 Diary (1715-16)	44	(3)
John Gay
9 Trivia, or the Art of Walking The Streets of London (1716)	47	(4)
Daniel Defoe
10 Moll Flanders (1722)	51	(1)
Cesar de Saussure
11 [A Foreign View of England...] (1725-30)	52	(3)
Horace Walpole
12 Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1742)	55	(1)
Samuel Johnson
13 Life of Savage (1744)	56	(2)
Eliza Haywood
14 The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)	58	(2)
Anon
15 Low Life or One Half the World Knows Not How the Other Half Live (1752)	60	(2)
William Whitehead
16 `The Sweepers' (1754)	62	(4)
James Boswell
17 London Journal (1763)	66	(1)
Pierre Jean Grosley
18 A Tour to London (1766-7)	67	(2)
Horace Walpole
19 Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1768)	69	(2)
PART II `A Mask of Maniacs'	71	(34)
Tobias Smollett
20 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)	71	(2)
George Crabbe
21 `The Poet's Journal' (1780)	73	(2)
Sophie van la Roche
22 Diary (1786)	75	(2)
William Blake
23 `London'(1794)	77	(1)
Charles Lamb
24 `A Londoner' (1802)	78	(1)
William Wordsworth
25 The Prelude, Book VII (1805)	79	(5)
Robert Southey
26 Letters from England (1807)	84	(3)
27 `Public Entry of Mr Hunt into London', The Statesman (1819)	87	(2)
28 Pierce Egan the elder, from Life in London (1821)	89	(2)
Thomas De Quincey
29 Confessions of an Opium-Letter (1821)	91	(3)
William Hazlitt
30 `On Londoners and Country People' (1823)	94	(2)
Robert Mudie
31 Babylon the Great (1825)	96	(2)
Heinrich Heine
32 English Fragments (1828)	98	(2)
Thomas De Quincey
33 `The Nation of London', Autobiographical Sketches (1834)	100	(2)
Francis Place
34 `The Street Charging Cross' (1835)	102	(3)
PART III `The Attraction of Repulsion'	105	(60)
Charles Dickens
35 Nicholas Nickleby (1839)	105	(1)
Flora Tristan
36 London Journal (1840)	106	(2)
William Makepeace Thackeray
37 `Going to See a Man Hanged' (1840)	108	(4)
Charles Dickens
38 Master Humphrey's Clock (1841)	112	(2)
John Fisher Murray
39 The World of London (1843)	114	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
40 `A Man of the Crowd' (1845)	117	(2)
G.W.M. Reynolds
41 The Mysteries of London (1845)	119	(3)
Charles Dickens
42 Dombey and Son (1848)	122	(1)
Angus Reach
43 `The Lounger in Regent Street' (1849)	123	(3)
Henry Mayhew
44 `Letter I' to the Morning Chronicle (1849)	126	(1)
Henry Mayhew
45 `Watercress Girl', London Labour and the London Poor (1851)	127	(3)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
46 In Memorian VII (1850)	130	(1)
Charlotte Bronte
47 Villette (1853)	131	(1)
Charles Dickens
48 Bleak House (1853)	132	(2)
Herman Melville
49 Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855)	134	(1)
Charles Dickens
50 `A Nightly Scene in London' (1856)	135	(3)
Charles Manby Smith
51 The Little World of London (1857)	138	(2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
52 The English Notebooks (1857)	140	(1)
53 `Another Unfortunate', from Letter to The Times (1858)	141	(2)
George Augustus Sala
54 Twice Round the Clock (1859)	143	(2)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
55 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863)	145	(2)
A. J. Munby
56 `Diaries' (1863-4)	147	(4)
Robert Buchanan
57 `Nell' (1866)	151	(2)
Matthew Arnold
58 `West London' (1867)	153	(1)
Anon
59 Three `Broadsides' (1871)	154	(6)
Hippolyte Taine
60 Notes on England (1872)	160	(5)
PART IV `In Darkest England and Some Ways out'	165	(70)
Octavia Hill
61 `Space for the People' (1875)	165	(2)
William Hale White
62 Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1885)	167	(2)
W. T. Stead
63 `The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon', Pall Mall Gazette (1885)	169	(3)
Beatrice Potter
64 `Diary' (1886)	172	(2)
George Gissing
65 Thyrza (1887)	174	(2)
Margaret Harkness
66 Out of Work (1888)	176	(2)
Henry James
67 `London' (1888)	178	(2)
George Gissing
68 The Nether World (1889)	180	(3)
Amy Levy
69 `London in July' (1889)	183	(1)
Arthur Morrison
70 `A Street' (1891)	184	(2)
Oscar Wilde
71 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)	186	(2)
Charles Booth
72 Labour and Life of the People (1891)	188	(2)
W.E. Henley
73 London Voluntaries (1892)	190	(2)
J.P. de Oliveira Martins
74 The England of Today (1893)	192	(2)
Charlotte Mew
75 `Passed' (1894)	194	(2)
John Davidson
76 `A Woman and Her Son' (1897)	196	(2)
Arnold Bennett
77 A Man From The North (1898)	198	(2)
Clarence Rook
78 The Hooligan Nights (1899)	200	(2)
Edgar Bateman
79 (and Eustace Baynes), Two Music-Hall Songs (1901)	202	(3)
C. F. G. Masterman
80 The Abyss (1902)	205	(3)
Sigurd Frosterus
81 `London Rhapsody' (1903)	208	(3)
Arthur W. Symons
82 London: A Book of Aspects (1903)	211	(2)
Ford H. Hueffer
83 The Soul of London (1905)	213	(2)
Olive C. Malvery
84 The Soul Market (1906)	215	(2)
Beckles Willson
George R. Sims
85 `Which is the Most Interesting London Street?' (1907)	217	(3)
Joseph Conrad
86 The Secret Agent (1907)	220	(3)
H. G. Wells
87 Tono-Bungay (1909)	223	(3)
H.G. Wells
88 Ann Veronica (1909)	226	(2)
Yoshio Markino
89 A Japanese Artist in London (1910)	228	(2)
90 `Miss Davison's Funeral: The March Through London', Manchester Guardian (1913)	230	(5)
Bibliography	235	(7)
Index	242