英文摘要 |
The self-fashioning of London as Troynovant (new Troy) or Rome proliferates in quasi-historical writings, city custumals, and literature in the early modern period. Eighteenth-century writers, including Edward Ward, Alexander Pope, and Tobias Smollett, opt for the realistic mode, tinting their descriptions of London street-life with a rhetoric that appeals to a social topography that polarizes The West End and The East End, center and margins. This paper provides a cultural reading of texts that rest on this dichotomous construct in the self-fashioning of London as modern metropolis. |