Images of London in the 18th Century: A Study of Urban Literature
FAIN: FB-11029-72
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Lenore J. Weitzman (Project Director: September 1972 to present)
To make a critical and interpretive study of the urban character of literature from 1660 to 1800. To illuminate the ways the literary imagination confronted the growth of imperial London in the 18th century.