One such conception, the Whig idea of London, is expressed in the two periodical essays you have been asked to read, The Spectator: No. 69 Saturday, May 19, 1711 (Addison) and The Spectator: No. 454 Saturday, August 11, 1712 (Steele). The other conception, the Tory idea, is forcefully presented in Jonathan Swift’s two poems ‘A Description of the Morning’, April 1709 and ‘A Description of a City Shower’, October 1710. One hundred and fifty years later there is apparently only one conception of London that dominates in literature and social thought, the conception you find in Dickens and in Henry Mayhew. Describe the conceptions of London that you find in the texts by Addison, Steele, and Swift and compare them with the conception of London in Dickens and Mayhew. Then try to explain why there is only one dominant conception of London in nineteenth century literature and social thought.