Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

NICOLA PARSONS is a Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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