A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century
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London in the eighteenth century was a new city, risen from the
ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that had destroyed half its homes
and great public buildings. The century that followed was an era of
vigorous expansion and large-scale projects, of rapidly changing
culture and commerce, as huge numbers of people arrived in the
shining city, drawn by its immense wealth and power and its many
diversions. Borrowing a phrase from Daniel Defoe, Jerry White calls
London this great and monstrous thing, the grandeur of its new
buildings and the glitter of its high life shadowed by poverty and
squalor. A Great and Monstrous Thing offers a street-level view of
the city: its public gardens and prisons, its banks and brothels,
its workshops and warehouses and its bustling, jostling crowds.
White introduces us to shopkeepers and prostitutes, men and women
of fashion and genius, street-robbers and thief-takers, as they
play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century
London. What emerges is a picture of a society fractured by
geography, politics, religion, history and especially by class, for
the divide between rich and poor in London was never greater or
more destructive in the modern era than in these years. Despite
this gulf, Jerry White shows us Londoners going about their
business as bankers or beggars, reveling in an enlarging world of
public pleasures, indulging in crimes both great and small amidst
the tightening sinews of power and regulation, and the hesitant
beginnings of London democracy.
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