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ISBN 10: 1349361127 
ISBN 13: 9781349361120
Author: Nicola Parsons

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.

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth Century England 1st Table of contents:

1 Gossip and Government: Deciphering the Body of the State
Queen Anne's Janus face: somatic and discursive models of power
Publicising secrets: gossip and scandal
Paper crowns: print, law and royal authority
Creating publics: gossip and reading
2 Reading Secrets of State: Delarivier Manley and the New Atalantis
A scandalous genre: defining the secret history
Unlocking the New Atalantis: the key, the text and the reader
Atalantic Intelligence
Revealing Intelligence: court politics and Sarah Churchill
3 Reforming Reference: Trials and Texts
The reading public and the spectacle of Dr Henry Sacheverell
(Re)Forming reference: reading The Secret History of the White Staff
4 Lucubrating London: The Tatler and the Female Tatler
'Fair-Sexing it': locating the Tatler and its audience
Telling news, talking politics
The Female Tatler and the female reader
5 A Newer Atalantis: Political and Generic Revolutions
Atalantis revived: Jacobite hopes and the Hanoverian succession
'Curlicism': somatic publishing practices and discursive authorship
Public screens, private texts: patchwork, politics, and literature
Print and politics
Conclusion: Anne's Legacy
Notes
Select Bibliography

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