Here are the online versions of the novels presented on the website in extracts:

Defoe,D. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722).

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/370

Smollett’s Humphry Clinker, (1771)

http://www.gasl.org/refbib/Smollett__Humphry_Clinker.pdf

or

It can be read on http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2160

Or

Fielding’s Tom Jones or the History of a Foundling, (1749)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6593

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fielding/henry/f45h/index.html

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.(1803)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm

Jane Austen Persuasion 1817

It can be read on https://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Persuasion.pdf

Thomas Sheridan, The Rivals, 1820

https://archive.org/stream/rivalsacomedyby00adamgoog/rivalsacomedyby00adamgoog_djvu.txt

Or

https://books.google.fr/books?id=5ttZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4-IA3&lpg=PR4-IA3&dq=ThomasSheridan+The+Rivals&source=bl&ots=qJDLE_tFfr&sig=oza9tarMStP5Fogo7Ee7fxUTof8&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpkaahuc_TAhUF7hoKHa0QAo8Q6AEIZTAJ#v=onepage&q=ThomasSheridan%20The%20Rivals&f=false

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique98

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique7

1) DEFOE A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, London, 1724-26, Letter 5, City of London

a)-Crime in London :

Statistics, building of prisons, punishments, reforms, prison scenes, debtors, offenders, jail fever : explain.

Do not hesitate to find out in the bibliography and through historical websites a number of elements for your answers.

b)-What do you know about the Beggar’s Opera ?

c)-What do you know about the role of Fielding as a magistrate and novelist as far as the conditions of prisoners were concerned?

d)-What was Bedlam?

e)-Read the extracts and more from Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders and describe how you imagine London at the time. You may compare with the paintings of the time:

http://www.freeclassicebooks.com/Defoe%20Daniel/Moll%20Flanders.pdf

f)-Hospitals :

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article198

Describe the conditions of living in the hospital, the medicine existing at the time.

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article198

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article321

g)-Do you know how hospitals were disinfected?

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article225&lang=en#4

h)-Look at Hogarth’s Gin Lane and Beer Street : compare the two and give your personal interpretation of the scenes and what Hogarth wanted to express.

• Look at the details in Beer Street and Gin Lane and situate both on a map. Show how they reveal a critical outlook on society.

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique100

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article225#4.2

Find more Hogarth works and show which aspects of the 18^th century society they represent.

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique101

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique97

i)-Study London as a port in the 18^th century : products and countries exchanges are made with.

j)-Painting :

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article76

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique127&lang=en

k)-From the paintings of Hogarth and other 18^th century painters, describe London and the new buildings in London.

l)-Music:

Listen to music in Vauxhall Gardens : compare the different styles.

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article59

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article59#3.1

m)-Gardens and Parks : study their social role in one specific novel of your choice.

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?rubrique106

2) Compare with London in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article178

a) Entertainments :

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article59#3

b)-Describe Vauxhall Gardens, The Ranelagh, Saddler’s Wells.

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article52

http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article178