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.
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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Queen Anne’s Bounty 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 Conclusion: Anne’s Legacy Notes Bibliography Index
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NICOLA PARSONS is a Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia.