Anthony Pollock is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he specializes in eighteenth-century European literature and gender studies. A former Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library, Pollock’s work has been placed in many journals, including ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

• Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Models and Countermodels of English Public Discourse, 1690-1714. 1. Learned Oracles, Muck-Spattered Spies, and Academic Activists: The Politics of English Publicness from Dunton to Addison. 2. Neutering Addison and Steele: Aesthetic Failure and the Spectatorial Public Sphere. 3. Gender, Ridicule, and the Satire of Liberal Reform: ‘Manley,’ Mandeville and the Female Tatler. Part II: Tory Feminism and the Gendered Reader, Astell to Haywood. 4. Astell, Whig Publicness, and the Problem of Female Specularity. 5. Voyeurism, Feminist Impartiality, and Cultural Authority: Haywood and the Addisonian Periodical. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Anthony Pollock is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he specializes in eighteenth-century European literature and gender studies. A former Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library, Pollock’s work has been placed in many journals, including ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

• Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Models and Countermodels of English Public Discourse, 1690-1714. 1. Learned Oracles, Muck-Spattered Spies, and Academic Activists: The Politics of English Publicness from Dunton to Addison. 2. Neutering Addison and Steele: Aesthetic Failure and the Spectatorial Public Sphere. 3. Gender, Ridicule, and the Satire of Liberal Reform: ‘Manley,’ Mandeville and the Female Tatler. Part II: Tory Feminism and the Gendered Reader, Astell to Haywood. 4. Astell, Whig Publicness, and the Problem of Female Specularity. 5. Voyeurism, Feminist Impartiality, and Cultural Authority: Haywood and the Addisonian Periodical. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Anthony Pollock is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he specializes in eighteenth-century European literature and gender studies. A former Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library, Pollock’s work has been placed in many journals, including ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

• Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Models and Countermodels of English Public Discourse, 1690-1714. 1. Learned Oracles, Muck-Spattered Spies, and Academic Activists: The Politics of English Publicness from Dunton to Addison. 2. Neutering Addison and Steele: Aesthetic Failure and the Spectatorial Public Sphere. 3. Gender, Ridicule, and the Satire of Liberal Reform: ‘Manley,’ Mandeville and the Female Tatler. Part II: Tory Feminism and the Gendered Reader, Astell to Haywood. 4. Astell, Whig Publicness, and the Problem of Female Specularity. 5. Voyeurism, Feminist Impartiality, and Cultural Authority: Haywood and the Addisonian Periodical. Notes. Bibliography. Index.