INTRODUCTION The Project London in 1716 John Gay's Life and Literary World A Guide to the Poem: Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London The Essays: Connections, Differences, Disciplines THE ESSAYS 1. Faces and Crowds: Biography in the City 2. Sharing Public Spaces 3. Spatial Stories: Movement in the City and Cultural Geography 4. 'All besides the Rail, rang'd Beggars lie': Trivia and the Public Poverty of Early Eighteenth-Century London 5. Nauceious and Abominable? Pollution, Plague, and Poetics in John Gay's Trivia 6. Artless and Artful: John Gay's Trivia 7. The Walker Beset: Gender in the Early Eighteenth-Century City 8. Street Style: Dress in John Gay's Trivia 9. Gay's Trivia: Walking the Streets of Rome THE POEM Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London POEM NOTES