The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820

ISBN-13: 9781316604908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

Rebecca Bullard; Rachel Carnell

Opis

This collection explores for the first time the importance of secret history in the literature of the long eighteenth century.

Recenzje

'While it might be an exaggeration to say that there are two distinct histories of the secret history, there seem to be at least two styles of writing about it. The first is literary, and this tradition is best exemplified by Rebecca Bullard and Rachel Carnell's remarkably wide-ranging and insightful collection of essays, The Secret History in Literature, 1660–1820.' Brian Cowan, Huntington Library Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: reconsidering secret history Rebecca Bullard; Part I. Seventeenth-Century England: 1. Paradise Lost as a secret history Michael McKeon; 2. Secret history and seventeenth-century historiography Martine W. Brownley; 3. Secret history and restoration drama Erin Keating; 4. Secret history and allegory David A. Brewer; 5. Secret history and amatory fiction Claudine van Hensbergen; 6. Secret history and spy narratives Slaney Chadwick Ross; Part II. Eighteenth-Century Britain: 7. Secret history, parody, and satire Melinda Alliker Rabb; 8. Secret history and it-narrative Rivka Swenson; 9. Secret history, oriental tale, and fairy tale Ros Ballaster; 10. Secret history and the periodical Nicola Parsons; 11. Secret history and censorship Eve Tavor Bannet; 12. Secret history and anecdote April London; 13. Secret history in the Romantic period Miranda Burgess; Part III. France and America: 14. Secret history in pre-revolutionary France Allison Stedman; 15. Secret history in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France Antoinette Sol; 16. Secret history in British North America and the early Republic Kevin Joel Berland; 17. Secret history in the early nineteenth-century Americas Gretchen J. Woertendyke; Epilogue: secret history at the start of the twenty-first century Rachel Carnell.