City spaces and literature: examples
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Study the following animations in the Georgian Cities website (Literature section) and comment on the interactive effects:
- Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Tom Jones in the London section
- Smollett's Humphry Clinker in the Edinburgh section
- Jane Austen's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in the Bath section
Skills:
- approach to Georgian novels
- comparison between media
Note: an explanation of the text/animation interaction in the Tom Jones animation:
- p.2 http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article53 , the map is Rocque's map of London, general view - on the next pages, the places visited by Tom Jones will appear
- p.3: the map shows the positioning of Hanover and Grosvenor Squares (mentioned in the text) in yellow in the fashionable West End areas of London, whereas Tom Jones enters London by Gray's Inn Lane (in brown), a socially very different area as explained in the text."
p.6: Hanover Square again, in the fashionable area, which Tom Jones has now reached (repeated in p.10 and continued pp.11 et 12)
p.13: the image shows a Georgian drawing room
p.14: the image shows a mirror (called 'glass' at the time) in Rococo style, where the face of Sophia appears - the portraits in the next pages are taken from Gainsborough's painting identified on p.15 (1785)
p.16: the roundel is view of the Hyde Park area by Richard Wilson (1745)