Moving Pageant - Paperback / softback

The Moving Pageantis the first annotated anthology of writings on London street life. It comprises nearly one hundred extracts from over two centuries of literary life, including pieces by * Alexander Pop * Jonathan Swif * Daniel Defo * Samuel Johnso * Eliza Haywoo * Horace Walpol * William Hazlit * William Wordswort * Charles Dicken * Flora Trista * Edgar Allen Po * Charlotte Bront * Fyodor Dostoyevsk * Octavia Hil * Beatrice Potte * Henry Jame * Oscar Wild * Arnold Bennet * Joseph Conra * H.G. Well The volume assembles a rich and varied selection of this abundance of writing, showing London as truly unique in its immensity, and, ultimately, supremely representative of our modern urban world in the makingThe Moving Pageantcomes complete with a superb editor's introduction, illustrations, and biographical and critical commentaries on each of the writers' entries. It also displays many genres and styles of writing, and includes street-ballads, music-hall songs, excerpts from novels, epic poems, and documentary accounts of riots and executions, as well as descriptions of state pageants and processions.