Abstract
Eve Tavor Bannet focuses on secret histories of the Stuart court and government between 1690 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714, showing how “true”and “fictional”secret histories clothed the same “facts” in different rhetorical dress. A coherent Enlightenment genre that straddles the modern disciplines, secret history made use of readers’ generic expectations to propagate a particular perspective on present and past political realities. The second part of the essay explores secret histories’ complex negotiation of secrecy and truth in relation to power, and the literary representation of secrecy itself. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.98 on Fri, 05 Aug 2016 05:57:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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