TY - JOUR
T1 - All the News That Is Fit to Steal
T2 - Charles Gildon, Ferrante Pallavicino, and the Geopolitics of Rifled Mailbag Fiction
AU - Beebee, Thomas O.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post-Boy Rob'd of His Mail (1692) and The Post-Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early modern Europe. This essay places these fictions by Gildon in their historical and literary contexts, including his repurposing of the Italian Il Corriero svaligiato by Ferrante Pallavicino, the relation to John Dunton's Athenian Mercury, and the use of addresses and occupations of letters to describe the geopolitics of Restoration London and its surround.
AB - Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post-Boy Rob'd of His Mail (1692) and The Post-Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early modern Europe. This essay places these fictions by Gildon in their historical and literary contexts, including his repurposing of the Italian Il Corriero svaligiato by Ferrante Pallavicino, the relation to John Dunton's Athenian Mercury, and the use of addresses and occupations of letters to describe the geopolitics of Restoration London and its surround.
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U2 - 10.1111/1754-0208.12928
DO - 10.1111/1754-0208.12928
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85186905955
SN - 1754-0194
VL - 47
SP - 31
EP - 44
JO - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
JF - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
IS - 1
ER -