The talk of the town: figurative publics in eighteenth-century Britain PDF
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The Talk of the Town .................16255$ $$FM 03-02-0711:14:33 PS PAGE1 TheBucknellStudiesin Eighteenth-Century Literature andCulture GeneralEditor: GregClingham,BucknellUniversity AdvisoryBoard: PaulK.Alkon,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia ChloeChard,IndependentScholar ClementHawes,ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity RobertMarkley,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JessicaMunns,UniversityofDenver CedricD.ReverandII,UniversityofWyoming JanetTodd,UniversityofAberdeen TheBucknellStudiesinEighteenth-CenturyLiteratureandCultureaimstopublishchalleng- ing,neweighteenth-centuryscholarship.Ofparticularinterestiscritical,historical,and interdisciplinaryworkthatisinterestinglyandintelligentlytheorized,andthatbroad- ensandrefinestheconceptionofthefield.Atthesametime,theseriesremainsopento all theoretical perspectives and different kinds of scholarship. While the focus of the series is the literature, history, arts, and culture (including art, architecture, music, travel,andhistoryofscience,medicine,andlaw)ofthelongeighteenthcenturyinBrit- ainandEurope,theseriesisalsointerestedinscholarshipthatestablishesrelationships withothergeographies,literature,andculturesfortheperiod1660–1830. TitlesinThisSeries JulietteCherbuliez,ThePlaceofExile:LeisureLiteratureandtheLimitsofAbsolutism TitaChico,DesigningWomen:TheDressingRoominEighteenth-Century EnglishLiteratureandCulture DanDollandJessicaMunns,ed.,RecordingandReordering:EssaysontheSeventeenth-andEighteenth- CenturyDiaryandJournal ZiadElmarsafy,Freedom,Slavery,andAbsolutism:Corneille,Pascale,Racine ReginaHewittandPatRogers,eds.,OrthodoxyandHeresyinEighteenth-CenturySociety SusanPatersonGlover,EngenderingLegitimacy:Law,Property,andEarlyEighteenth-CenturyFiction CatherineJones,LiteraryMemory:Scott’sWaverleyNovelsandthePsychologyofNarrative SarahJordan,TheAnxietiesofIdleness:IdlenessinEighteenth-Century BritishLiteratureandCulture DeborahKennedy,HelenMariaWilliamsandtheAgeofRevolution ChrisMounsey,ChristopherSmart:ClownofGod ChrisMounsey,ed.,PresentingGender:ChangingSexinEarlyModernCulture Fre´de´ricOge´e,ed.,‘‘BetterinFrance?’’:TheCirculationofIdeasacrosstheChannelinthe EighteenthCentury RolandRacevskis,TimeandWaysofKnowingUnderLouisXIV:Molie`re,Se´vigne´,Lafayette LauraRosenthalandMitaChoudhury,eds.,MonstrousDreamsofReason KatherineWestScheil,TheTasteoftheTown:ShakespearianComedy andtheEarlyEighteenth-CenturyTheater PhilipSmallwood,ed.,JohnsonRe-Visioned:LookingBeforeandAfter PeterWalmsley,Locke’sEssayandtheRhetoricofScience LisaWood,ModesofDiscipline:Women,Conservatism,and theNovelaftertheFrenchRevolution MarkBlackwell,ed.,TheSecretLifeofThings:Animals,Objects,andIt-NarrativesinEighteenth- CenturyEngland EvanGottlieb,FeelingBritish:SympathyandNationalIdentityin ScottishandEnglishWriting,1701–1832 http://www.bucknell.edu/universitypress/ .................16255$ $$FM 03-02-0711:14:33 PS PAGE2 The Talk of the Town Figurative Publics in Eighteenth-Century Britain Ann C. Dean Lewisburg BucknellUniversityPress .................16255$ $$FM 03-02-0711:14:34 PS PAGE3 (cid:2)2007byRosemontPublishing&PrintingCorp. All rights reserved. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or theinternalorpersonaluseofspecificclients,isgrantedbythecopyrightowner,pro- videdthatabasefeeof$10.00,pluseightcentsperpage,percopyispaid directlyto theCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive,Danvers,Massachusetts01923. [978-0-8387-5672-0/07$10.00(cid:3)8¢pp,pc.] AssociatedUniversityPresses 2010EastparkBoulevard Cranbury,NJ08512 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials Z39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Dean,AnnC.,1967– Thetalkofthetown:figurativepublicsineighteenth-centuryBritain/AnnC.Dean. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-8387-5672-0(alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-8387-5672-7(alk.paper) 1.GreatBritain—Intellectuallife—18thcentury. 2.Discourseanalysis—Social aspects—GreatBritain—History—18thcentury. 3.Publicopinion—Great Britain—History—18thcentury. 4.Pressandpolitics—GreatBritain—History— 18thcentury. 5.Coffeehouses—GreatBritain—Socialaspects. 6.GreatBritain— Civilization—18thcentury. 7.Press—GreatBritain—Influence—History—18th century. I.Title. DA485.D43 2007 941.07—dc22 2006034649 PRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA .................16255$ $$FM 03-02-0711:14:35 PS PAGE4 Contents Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 11 1. FiguringCoffehouseTalkinthe SpectatorandIts Heirs 25 2. CreatingaClamor:TheLanguageofCourtPolitics 46 3. ClamorintheNewspapers: FigurativePublicsin MidcenturyNewspaper Writing 74 4. Candid Debate:RepresentingParliamentaryProcedure 100 Epilogue:FigurativePublicsandRevolutionaryDiscourse 127 Notes 133 Bibliography 140 Index 144 5 .................16255$ CNTS 03-02-0711:14:36 PS PAGE5 .................16255$ CNTS 03-02-0711:14:37 PS PAGE6 Acknowledgments A PARADEOFGENEROUS,BRILLIANT,ANDKINDPEOPLECHALLENGED andsupportedmeasIworkedonthisproject.Itisapleasuretobeable toprintandcirculateanimageofthegratitudeIfeelsostrongly. Ingraduateschool,whereIbegantoworkontheseideas,Ibenefited from studying with scholars whose questions provoked me to return repeatedly to these texts. My debt to Michael Warner’s work will be clear to any reader of this study; I would also like to thank Myra Jeh- len,BruceRobbins,MichaelMcKeon,andRichardMiller.Otherread- ersalsointervenedcruciallyinmyshapingofthemanuscript:Stephanie Volmer, Kara Donaldson, Kathy Ashley, Ruth Dean, Terri Nickel, David Collings, and the anonymous reader for Bucknell University Press. For emotional, logistical, financial, and recreational support in vari- ous combinations, I would like to thank my family: Jonathan, Ruth, Alex,andMelissaDeanandAnne,Martin,Rozzie,andMargaretHay- den;thepokergroup:VicTulli,StephanieVolmer,KathyCrown,Kevil Duhon, Matthew Shifman, Cora Turlish, Jennifer and Dario Arena, TakashiYokoyama,andJayStevenson;TomasandMariluFortsonand the Bowdoin squash community; Carol Bork; Tanya Agathocleous; Nancy Abelmann; Priti Joshi; Allison Basile; Vineet Shende; Hillary Brown;andAnnFlannery. Myhusband,BernardoFeliciano,burned himselftoa crispteaching middle school science for the eight years it took me to earn my PhD and is taking care of our daughter Nelle as I write these words. His giftsofintelligence,time,andlovehavemadethisprojectpossible. Aportion ofchapter2waspublishedinELH73 (2006):631–49. 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