Street sociability [ Cities ]
… of social 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 … and Joseph Addison, Spectator, 1711-1714, ed. D.F. Bond, 5 vols (Oxford, 1965); Jonathan Swift, ‘A Description of a City Shower’ (1711), ed. Roger Lonsdale, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (Oxford: OUP, 1984), p. 16-17. 5 … not involve horses and a demand to ‘stand and deliver’ . Instead they were what would now be thought of as muggings on city streets – in which intra-class conflict was played out. 12 The rewards and awful punishments meted out reflect …
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