This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-centuryliterary 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. INDICE: Acknowledgments - List of Illustrations - Introduction: Queen Anne's Bounty - Gossip and Government: Deciphering the Body of the State - ReadingSecrets 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 - Conclusion: Anne's Legacy - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-54671-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés