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Chapter 3 - Imagining the Stranger

The Tourist in the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

Alison O'Byrne
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University of York
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Chapter 3 considers the various forms of writing about the city that imagined or invoked the perspective of the stranger who walked its streets. It examines how tourist accounts of London in pocket guidebooks shared with proposals for urban improvements and surveys of the city an understanding of the visitor to London as both an audience for accounts of London and also a potential critic of the city. While map, print, and booksellers began to produce items that walked strangers around the city and pointed out its key sites, those proposing improvements expressed concerns that foreign travellers might be disappointed by a city that lacked the grand and magnificent architecture of its European neighbours. Together, these works point to a desire to accommodate strangers and to offer them an account of Britain as a polite and commercial nation.

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The Art of Walking in London
Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700–1830
, pp. 108 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Imagining the Stranger
  • Alison O'Byrne, University of York
  • Book: The Art of Walking in London
  • Online publication: 19 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009524018.004
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  • Imagining the Stranger
  • Alison O'Byrne, University of York
  • Book: The Art of Walking in London
  • Online publication: 19 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009524018.004
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  • Imagining the Stranger
  • Alison O'Byrne, University of York
  • Book: The Art of Walking in London
  • Online publication: 19 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009524018.004
Available formats
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