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Author Parsons, Nicola, 1976-

Title Reading gossip in early eighteenth-century England / Nicola Parsons
Published Houndmills, Balsingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Contents Gossip and government : deciphering the body of the state -- Reading secrets of state : Delarivier Manley and the New Atalantis -- Reforming reference : trials and texts -- Lucubrating London : the tatler and the female tatler -- A newer Atalantis : political and generic revolutions
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714 -- In literature
SUBJECT Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714 fast
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Gossip in literature.
Secrecy 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Books and reading
English literature
Gossip
Gossip in literature
Literature
Political culture
Politics and literature
Secrecy
Secrecy in literature
Literatur
Klatsch Motiv
Englische Literatur -- Politik -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Englische Literatur -- Gesellschaft -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Politik -- Englische Literatur -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Klatsch -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Klatsch.
Autor -- Lesen (Leser) -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Lesen -- (Leser) -- Autor -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230244764
0230244769
1282671774
9781282671775