ISBN:
9786612125607
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9781282125605
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 250 S.)
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24cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. UK MyiLibrary 2009 Also available in print
Edition:
Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Political and popular culture in the early modern period 2
Series Statement:
Political and popular culture in the early modern period
Parallel Title:
Print version The Politics of Disclosure, 1674-1725
DDC:
306.2094109032
Keywords:
Historiography History 18th century
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Politics and literature History 17th century
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Politics and literature History 18th century
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Political culture History 17th century
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Political culture History 18th century
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Historiography History 17th century
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Great Britain History 18th century
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Historiography
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Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714
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Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714
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Historiography
Abstract:
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. In an era of absolute rule, secret histories shattered the aura of mystery which surrounded the power elite
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1: Whig Secret History: the Core Tradition; 1. Procopius of Caesarea and the Secret History of the Court of the Emperor Justinian; 2. Secret History and Whig Historiography, 1688-1702; 3. Secret History, the 'Revolution' of 1714 and the Case of John Dunton; Section 2: Secret History in the Eighteenth Century; 4. Delarivier Manley and tory Uses of Secret History; 5. Secrecy and Secret History in The Spectator; 6. daniel Defoe: Harleyite Secret History and the Early Novel; 7. Eliza Haywood: Secret History, Curiosity and Disappointment; Conclusion; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Works CitedIndex;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243) and index
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