ISBN:
9781851969692
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Series Statement:
Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period
Parallel Title:
Print version The Politics of Disclosure, 1674-1725 : Secret History Narratives
DDC:
306.2094109032
Keywords:
Electronic books
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Introduction; Section 1 Whig Secret History: the Core Traditions; 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: Variations and Adaptations; 4 Delarivier Manley and Tory Uses of Secret History; 5 Secrecy and Secret History in the Spectator (1711-14)
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Daniel Defoe: Harleyite Secret History and the Early Novel7 Eliza Haywood: Secret History, Curiosity and Disappointment; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
