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LEADER: 02018nam a22003498a 4500
001 2009043542
003 DLC
005 20091022153651.0
008 091016s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009043542
020 $a9780230546714 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR448.P6$bP37 2009
082 00 $a820.9/353$222
100 1 $aParsons, Nicola,$d1976-
245 10 $aReading gossip in early eighteenth-century England /$cNicola Parsons.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2009.
263 $a0910
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aGossip in literature.
650 0 $aSecrecy in literature.
600 00 $aAnne,$cQueen of Great Britain,$d1665-1714$xIn literature.
650 0 $aGossip$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSecrecy$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.