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Notorious facts : publicity in romantic England, 1780-1830
- Title
- Notorious facts : publicity in romantic England, 1780-1830 / James Mulvihill.
- Author
- Mulvihill, James.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 199 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Sensationalism in literature > History and criticism
- Popular culture > England > History
- Scandals > England > History
- England > Intellectual life > 19th century
- England > Intellectual life > 18th century
- Libel and slander > England > History
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Publicity > England > History
- Romanticism > England > History
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Libelous truths : power and publicity -- Three English perspectives -- An essay on the evils of scandal, slander, and misrepresentation -- Jeremy Bentham : "An essay on political tactics" -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge : the friend -- Three pamphlet controversies -- Secret influence, public ruin! -- Matter of fact for the multitude -- A few cursory remarks upon the state of parties -- English libel law : the King v. John and Leigh Hunt -- Regal obsessions : scandal and the Prince of Wales -- Men versus measures -- The Fitzherbert affair -- John Horne Tooke : a letter to a friend -- Philip Withers and the Alfred pamphlets -- The Jefferys affair -- The delicate investigation -- Nathaniel Jefferys : a review of the conduct of the Prince of Wales -- Secret histories : the popular idiom of exposure secret history and publicity -- Royal revelations -- Thomas Ashe : the spirit of "the book" -- Mary Anne Clarke : Minutes of evidence and The rival princes -- Napoleonic disclosures -- The exposé, or, Napoleon Buonaparte unmasked (1809) -- The secret history of the cabinet of Bonaparte (1810) -- Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (1819) -- Green room exposés -- Joseph Haslewood, The secret history of the green-room -- Edwin versus McCready -- Celebrity turns : William Hazlitt and the Reverend Edward Irving -- William Hazlitt -- "Whether actors ought to sit in the boxes" -- Liber amoris -- The spirit of the age -- Edward Irving -- Hazlitt on Irving -- Ministry and media -- Dangerous preaching -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1228
- ISBN
- 9781611493467 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611493463 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611493474 (electronic)
- 1611493471 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011030206
- OCLC
- YBP 2011030206
- Author
- Mulvihill, James.
- Title
- Notorious facts : publicity in romantic England, 1780-1830 / James Mulvihill.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1228