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Gossip and the Public Sphere
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2012
- pp. 509-512
- 10.1353/ecy.2012.0040
- Article
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A review of Nicola Parsons Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England, a book examining gossip and other forms of unofficial discourse in their political and social contexts and demonstrating that during the reign of Queen Anne literary culture saw multiple shifts in the handling of privacy, secrecy, and publicity.