The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800

<p>This project traces the emergence of the spy in the literature of the eighteenth century, arguing for spying's ideological transition within the cultural and literary imagination from a profession to a way of being. At stake in "The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800" is the idea that surveillance, spying, and state secrecy inform and meaningfully intersect with eighteenth century narrative fiction. Through analysis of a variety of surveillance fictions, including spy narratives, financial tell-alls, periodicals, amatory secret histories, and domestic and Gothic fictions, I incorporate the idea of surveillance into eighteenth-century literary history in order to more thoroughly understand how the genre speaks back to eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, class, and selfhood.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative Literature

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Ross, Slaney Chadwick

Contributors dc:contributor

• Manushag N Powell
• Nicole J Horejsi
• Geraldine S Friedman
• Christopher Lukasik

• eighteenth-century British literature
• intelligence
• secret histories
• spies
• surveillance

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1494

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2710