Space and the Marginsin Early Eighteenth-Century Poems on London
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The basic premise of this paper is that the topography of early eighteenth-century poems on London typically zooms in on its streets, particularly the spatial margins of London streets, as a Lefebvrean “representational space,” and on the ‘strollers’ of London streets, from poor poets to prostitutes. Their apparent spatial mobility suggests freedom and empowerment in an age of great spatial expansion in the metropole and overseas colonies, but a closer look reveals their lack of space and shifting presence on the boundaries between propertied spaces, as depicted in poems like Swift’s “A Description of Morning” and “A Description of a City Shower,” Gay’s Trivia, and Johnson’s London. Their mobility and marginality, at once threatening and vulnerable, are rendered manifest with ‘night strollers,’ most notably prostitutes, along with criminals and the urban poor, in Book III (“Of Walking the Streets by Night”) of Gay’s Trivia and Swift’s “A Beautiful Young Nymph going to Bed.” In these poems, the strollers of (night) streets dream various dreams of ‘transportation,’ poetic, spatial, and penal, and these phantasms of imagined mobility or ‘transportation’ interlock with one another to reveal the binding reality in the margins of the age of great spatial expansion.
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The basic premise of this paper is that the topography of early eighteenth-century poems on London typically zooms in on its streets, particularly the spatial margins of London streets, as a Lefebvrean “representational space,” and on the ‘strollers’ of London streets, from poor poets to prostitutes. Their apparent spatial mobility suggests freedom and empowerment in an age of great spatial expansion in the metropole and overseas colonies, but a closer look reveals their lack of space and shifting presence on the boundaries between propertied spaces, as depicted in poems like Swift’s “A Description of Morning” and “A Description of a City Shower,” Gay’s Trivia, and Johnson’s London. Their mobility and marginality, at once threatening and vulnerable, are rendered manifest with ‘night strollers,’ most notably prostitutes, along with criminals and the urban poor, in Book III (“Of Walking the Streets by Night”) of Gay’s Trivia and Swift’s “A Beautiful Young Nymph going to Bed.” In these poems, the strollers of (night) streets dream various dreams of ‘transportation,’ poetic, spatial, and penal, and these phantasms of imagined mobility or ‘transportation’ interlock with one another to reveal the binding reality in the margins of the age of great spatial expansion.
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