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… not only adds generosity to their disposition – humanity to their conduct – but courage to their national character.’ Pierce Egan, Boxiana; or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Puglism, vol. 1 (London, Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1823 [1812]), p. 2. … of Nations. 8 . Cobbett’s Political Register, vol. VIII. From July to December 1805 (London: Cox and Baylis), p. 201. Pierce Egan and Boxiana (1813-1829) The patriotic argument was repeatedly used by journalists and pamphleteers. Boxing …

… an ever more diverse landscape of people, and to socialise along the way. This literary tradition led in turn to Pierce Egan and the phenomenon that was Life in London (1818) chronicling the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Bob Logic, in which … Paulson, Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). 8 . Pierce Egan, Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, …

… squares and town houses for the elite in the West End) shopkeepers in St James's Street, the Strand and Old Bond Street began to offer the best fashions from Paris and to inform women what was in and what was out. The top shops in the … the ‘ beau monde ‘. 5 They showed up for the aristocratic season and were the people to be seen with. Gentlemen began to pursue life in the clubs of St. James's. The first of the West End clubs was White's, founded in a chocolate … urban culture. New forms of sociability emerged around the networks offered by luxury entertainment and retail. Pierce Egan's novel Life in London (1821) expressed the way in which the West End offered spaces for the man about town. …