Notorious facts
Subtitle: publicity in romantic England, 1780-1830
By: James Mulvihill
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611493467
Subjects: Scandals; English literature; Publicity; Intellectual life; Popular culture; History and criticism; Romanticism; Sensationalism in literature; Libel and slander; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Libelous truths : power and publicity; title: Three English perspectives; title: An essay on the evils of scandal, slander, and misrepresentation; title: Jeremy Bentham : "An essay on political tactics"; title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge : the friend; title: Three pamphlet controversies; title: Secret influence, public ruin!; title: Matter of fact for the multitude; title: A few cursory remarks upon the state of parties; title: English libel law : the King v. John and Leigh Hunt; title: Regal obsessions : scandal and the Prince of Wales; title: Men versus measures; title: The Fitzherbert affair; title: John Horne Tooke : a letter to a friend; title: Philip Withers and the Alfred pamphlets; title: The Jefferys affair; title: The delicate investigation; title: Nathaniel Jefferys : a review of the conduct of the Prince of Wales; title: Secret histories : the popular idiom of exposure secret history and publicity; title: Royal revelations; title: Thomas Ashe : the spirit of "the book"; title: Mary Anne Clarke : Minutes of evidence and The rival princes; title: Napoleonic disclosures; title: The exposé, or, Napoleon Buonaparte unmasked (1809); title: The secret history of the cabinet of Bonaparte (1810); title: Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (1819); title: Green room exposés; title: Joseph Haslewood, The secret history of the green-room; title: Edwin versus McCready; title: Celebrity turns : William Hazlitt and the Reverend Edward Irving; title: William Hazlitt; title: "Whether actors ought to sit in the boxes"; title: Liber amoris; title: The spirit of the age; title: Edward Irving; title: Hazlitt on Irving; title: Ministry and media; title: Dangerous preaching; title: Afterword.