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Author:

Parsons, Nicola, 1976-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

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

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Gossip in literature.
Secrecy in literature.
Anne,--Queen of Great Britain,--1665-1714--In literature.
Gossip--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Secrecy--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Political culture--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Englische Literatur--Politik--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Englische Literatur--Gesellschaft--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Politik--Englische Literatur--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Klatsch--Englische Literatur.--Englische Literatur.
Englische Literatur--Klatsch.--Klatsch.
Autor--Lesen (Leser)--Grossbritannien--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Lesen--Autor--Autor--Grossbritannien--Geschichte 20. Jh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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:

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print

ISBN:

0230546714 (hardback)
9780230546714 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)298778234

LCCN:

2009043542

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)