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Description

1. xi, 211 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres"--Provided by publisher.

Series statement

1. Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print

Uniform title

1. Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.

Subject

1. Secrecy > Great Britain > History > 18th century
2. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
3. Political culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century
4. Secrecy in literature
5. Gossip > Great Britain > History > 18th century
6. Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 18th century
7. Gossip in literature
8. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
9. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714 > In literature

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: ContentsAcknowledgments List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Queen Anne's BountyGossip and Government: Deciphering the Body of the StateReading Secrets of State: Delarivier Manley and the New AtalantisReforming Reference: Trials and TextsLucubrating London: The Tatler and the Female TatlerA Newer Atalantis: Political and Generic RevolutionsConclusion: Annes LegacyNotesBibliography.

Call number

1. JFD 10-475

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Parsons, Nicola, 1976-

Title

1. Reading gossip in early eighteenth-century England / Nicola Parsons.

Imprint

1. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Series

1. Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
2. Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2009043542

ISBN

1. 9780230546714 (hardback)
2. 0230546714 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFD 10-475