The politics of disclosure, 1674-1725 : secret history narratives
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The politics of disclosure, 1674-1725 : secret history narratives
(Political and popular culture in the early modern period, no. 2)
Routledge, 2016, c2009
- : pbk
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Originally published: London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009
"First issued in paperback 2015"--T.p. verso
Works cited: p. 229-243
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the 'secret history', a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Whig Secret History: The Core Tradition
- Chapter 1 Procopius of Caesarea and the Secret History of the Court of the Emperor Justinian (1674)
- Chapter 2 Secret History and Whig Historiography, 1688-1702
- Chapter 3 Secret History, the 'Revolution' of 1714 and the Case of John Dunton
- Part 2 Secret History in the Eighteenth Century: Variations and Adaptations
- Chapter 4 Delarivier Manley and Tory Uses of Secret History
- Chapter 5 Secrecy and Secret History in the Spectator (1711-14)
- Chapter 6 Daniel Defoe: Harleyite Secret History and the Early Novel
- Chapter 7 Eliza Haywood: Secret History, Curiosity and Disappointment
- conclusion Conclusion
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