Title: Reading gossip in early eighteenth-century England
Description: "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.
Subjects: History, Political culture, English literature, Politics and literature, History and criticism, Books and reading, Gossip in literature, Secrecy in literature, Secrecy, Gossip, In literature, Anne, queen of great britain, 1665-1714
Places: Great Britain
People: Anne Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714)
Time periods: 18th century