City heterotopias as the mirror of the Enlightenment Project in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature: Ward's "The Amorous Bugbears" and King's "Journey to London"

The article applies Michel Foucault's notion of 'heterotopia' to early eighteenth-century English culture. Taking into account the eighteenth-century project of the implementation of politeness in terms of a reconciliation of gentility and urbanity in the modern metropolitan context (as analysed by L. Klein in his study of Shaftsbury and politeness), the essay investigates the ambiguous status of some city spaces in Ned Ward's prose (in his story "The Amorous Bugbears") and William King’s satire, "A Journey to London".