The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 24 April 2025
- ISBN 9781009554114
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages254 pages
- Size 236x161x20 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English 741
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Short description:
Engagingly explores the creation, publication, and reception of England's most famous diary.
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During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman - one of the few people who can read Pepys's shorthand - unlocks the riddles of the diary, investigating why he chose to preserve such private matters for later generations. She also casts fresh light on the women and sexual relationships in Pepys's life and on Black Britons living in or near his household. Exploring the many inventive uses to which the diary has been put, Loveman shows how Pepys's history became part of the history of the nation.
'Samuel Pepys and his diary are 'strange' on so many levels - the contents are strange, the manner of the diary's creation and even its preservation are strange, as well as subsequent generations' responses to it. Kate Loveman has done an excellent job in helping readers navigate the diary's many fascinating layers.' Margaret Ezell, author of The Oxford English Literary History, Volume V
Table of Contents:
Conventions; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Writing the diary; 2. Shorthand and secrecy; 3. Saving the diary; 4. First publication; 5. Victorian Pepys; 6. War and the diary; 7. 'Every last obscenity': complete and online; 8. Reading against the grain; Afterword.
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