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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Erin Mackie Michael McKeon. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 904. $30. ISBN 0-8018-7873-x Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
The Secret History of Almost...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Melinda Alliker Rabb “Swift, Secret History, and War” argues that the relationship between Swift’s writing, reading, and his abiding interest in the English Civil Wars produced a distinctive contribution to the discourses that arose after the reestablishment of monarchy, called “secret histories...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 76–101.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Peter M. Briggs This essay examines three satirical works from the most productive decade of Edward (Ned) Ward's long writing career: The London Spy (1698-1700), The London Terraefilius , or, The Satyrical Reformer (1707-08), and The Secret History of Clubs (1709). All three of these colorful...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
...” since the Reformation; and second, how to represent people who had been celebrated in their own time, but not in the biographer's later generation. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 celebrity impartiality national worth biography secret history Eighteenth- Century Life Volume...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2017
... emergent, and some momentary and occasional. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Milton secret history parody Christian accommodation mock epic epic •
Paradise Lost,
Poem of the Restoration Period...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2011
... network,” and how
this network extended throughout the wider Stockholm society.
An excellent paper from Rebecca Bullard emerged from her work in
The Politics of Disclosure, 1674 – 1725: Secret History Narratives (London: Pick-
ering and Chatto, 2009), and engaged with the use of letters...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Tobias Menely Daniel M. Gross. The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's “Rhetoric” to Modern Brain Science (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 194. $18. ISBN 0-226-30980-0 Brycchan Carey. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 1–7.
Published: 01 September 2020
... enfolded into the term civil war emerge as a literature divided against itself. Similarly focused on political constraints and on the limits of what can be spoken in any given historical moment, Melinda Rabb illuminates how Jonathan Swift contributes to the genre of secret history, and, more broadly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., calls, with
admirable understatement, “a complex matter.”7 Rebecca Bullard’s discus-
sion of secret history narratives, to which the anecdotal method is closely
allied etymologically and practically in the early eighteenth century, is per-
haps most notable for arguing, in the face of previous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 January 2025
... for “unpublished things,” the term “anecdote” entered English in the late seventeenth century by way of a translated secret history and quickly became a byword for all manner of literary commodities. Like secret history itself, published anecdotes often operated at the slippery boundary of fact and fiction...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
... acceptance of that attribution.
3. Part of the fiction of Gulliver’s Travels is the prefatory note by Lemuel
Gulliver’s cousin, Richard Sympson, in which he describes how the text came
into his hands and how he communicated it to the publisher. John Mullan, in
Anonymity: A Secret History...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 January 2011
...-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1998).
2. Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and
the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2005), and Nancy
Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 113–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the fictional can be found, for example, in the continued appearance of “secret histories” and romans à clef well into the Romantic period. 8 Long treated as hastily assembled products of little artistic substance, Minerva novels have not been given serious attention by scholars of fictionality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., Greer, in “Briscoe,” has found that Briscoe was
apprenticed to Richard Baldwin in 1684, and his last entry into the records is on
29 September 1724 for James Anderson’s The Secret History of the Freemasons (33, 44.)
16. Familiar Letters: Written by the Right Honourable John, Late Earl...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 89–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
... important of all. These genres tend to be invisible to
scholars. Samuel Johnson’s definition of “anecdote” as “something yet unpub-
lished; secret history” emphasizes its orality in a way that helps us to grasp
the relation of salon conversation to literature. The ability to tell good stories...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 122–127.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of the reader. The text offers
a quixotic narrative that unfolds in episodes divided into two volumes, where
characters recur but under different names. Both Folkenflik and Darnton situ-
ate the novel in the genre of “secret histories” (vies privées) that combined pub-
lic and private information, history...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 136–149.
Published: 01 April 2016
... the game of “secret histories,”
but if one were to do so, there is no work that, in its historical trajectory and
influence, offers a better example of the novel’s history: a late classical fruit that
becomes a modern seed.) Ancient Greek novels present idealized characters
struggling against...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 2013
... to “preserve and transmit
in an orderly and recorded way a particular societal organization” (84). Michael
McKeon, in The Secret History of Domesticity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ.,
2005), interprets the frequency with which tyrannical parents and rebellious children
appear in eighteenth-century...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya, or the Moor (1806), ed. Kim Ian Michasiw (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1997), the text used throughout this essay. 17. Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2005), xvii. McKeon revises...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
speaks it, for her 1705 scandal narrative The Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians.
See John J. Richetti & Paula R. Backscheider, eds., Popular Fiction by Women, 1660–1730
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), p. 53.
6. Todd calls the Memoires a model for the epistolary form of Love-letters...
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