Overview
Ideal as set reading or recommended reading for any undergraduate course in literature or history that focuses on the development of The City (i.e. cities in general or London specifically)
Features key extracts about the city of London from some of the foremost writers to have written about it
Sections are introduced by accounts of the various contexts from which the passages are drawn: historical, social, cultural and geographic
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter L. Groves, Alan F. Dilnot and the late Geoffrey G. Hiller earned their doctorates at Cambridge and Oxford, and became Senior Lecturers in English Literature at Monash University, Melbourne, where Groves is still employed (in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics) and Dilnot holds an adjunct position. Hiller and Groves have between them published nine books, including four as co-authors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914
Book Subtitle: 'Flower of Cities All'
Editors: Geoffrey G. Hiller, Peter L. Groves, Alan F. Dilnot
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05609-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05608-7Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05609-4Published: 06 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 251
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Nineteenth-Century Literature