The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

By: Manley, Lawrence

Book Overview

London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521722314
• ISBN13: 9780521722315
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"