Street sociability [ Cities ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Miseries of London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1807. Abstract In a world of pedestrians streets and roads formed the most demotic of social … commentators were just as fascinated by the sociability of the street, and especially with the streets of London. These alfresco demotic spaces witnessed innumerable cross-class and cross-gender encounters that sit awkwardly at … encounters in the street did not escape eighteenth-century commentators. From Marcellus Laroon's Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life 1678), to Defoe ’s Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack (1721) a new fascination with streets and …
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