The literature of early modern London, and its contribution to the development of metropolitan culture.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the co