McTague Things that Didn't Happen

Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78744-519-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 295 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the Eighteenth Century

An innovative exploration of fake news and alternative reality in late Stuart and early Hanoverian political and literary culture, from the Popish Plot and the South Sea Bubble to the Dunciad.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McTague, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Incorrigibility: The Warming Pan Scandal of 1688-89
'Working in th'immediate power to be': The Popish and Protestant Plots
Travesties: The Assassination and Insurrection Plots of 1683
Contingency and Incontinence: The Jacobite Invasion of 1708
The Indifference of Number: The South Sea Bubble, 1720-21
'Some Convenient Order': Mandeville, Berkeley, and the Narration of Ethical Exchange
Living in Counterhistory: The Dunciads as Mock-Prophecy
The Indifference of the Dunces: Agency in the Dunciads
Gravitation, Providence, and Theories of History in the Dunciads
Conclusion: Events that Didn't Happen
Bibliography