Moving Pageant

<p><em>The Moving Pageant</em> is 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:<br> * Alexander Pope<br> * Jonathan Swift<br> * Daniel Defoe<br> * Samuel Johnson<br> * Eliza Haywood<br> * Horace Walpole<br> * William Hazlitt<br> * William Wordsworth<br> * Charles Dickens<br> * Flora Tristan<br> * Edgar Allen Poe<br> * Charlotte Bronte<br> * Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br> * Octavia Hill<br> * Beatrice Potter<br> * Henry James<br> * Oscar Wilde<br> * Arnold Bennett<br> * Joseph Conrad<br> * H.G. Wells<br> 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 making.<br><em>The Moving Pageant</em> comes 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.</p> PART I ‘Amusements Serious and Comical’ PART II ‘A Mask of Maniacs’ PART III ‘The Attraction of Repulsion’ PART IV ‘In Darkest England and Some Ways out’