Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Writing Eighteenth-Century London
Course Number:
ENG00018H
Course Description:
Samuel Johnson famously proclaimed that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Pleasure gardens, assemblies, theatres, masquerades, and promenades offered opportunities for social mixing and social performance to those attending. For some, the city offered opportunities for improvement as well as entertainment, a place where, according to Hume, “both sexes meet in an easy and sociable manner; and the tempers of men, as well as their behaviour, refine apace.” But other writers were less convinced of the city’s ability to ‘improve’ its inhabitants. For some writers, London embodied the ills of modern life, including an indiscriminate social mixing that was more likely to corrupt than to improve, and a highly commercial book trade in which anyone could have anything published, regardless of quality. Whether they loved it or hated it, London offered writers an opportunity
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00018H/latest
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