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Author Dean, Ann C., 1967- author.

Title The talk of the town : figurative publics in eighteenth-century Britain / Ann C. Dean
Published Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (146 pages)
Series The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Contents Figuring Coffehouse Talk in the Spectator and its Heirs -- Creating a Clamor: The Language of Court Politics -- Clamor in the Newspapers: Figurative Publics in Midcentury Newspaper Writing -- Candid Debate: Representing Parliamentary Procedure -- Epilogue: Figurative Publics and Revolutionary Discourse
Summary "This book persuasively analyzes the relations between the eighteenth-century press and public speech."--book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-143) and index
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Subject Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Coffeehouses -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Press -- Great Britain -- Influence -- History -- 18th century
Civilization
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
Press and politics
Press -- Influence
Public opinion
Kaffeehaus
Geistesleben
Intellektueller
Diskurs
Republikanismus
Öffentlicher Raum
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0838759513
9780838759516