"Anna Clark has pioneered research on sex, scandal, and democracy.
Here she shows why scandal is not just engaging, nay fascinating,
but how sexual politics is important to power, to political
discourse, and the constitution, how it disturbs the fiction of
public and private, and how it connects with the contradictions of
everyday life-the life that we all live."--Beatrix Campbell, writer
and broadcaster, author of "Diana, Princess of Wales: How Sexual
Politics Shook the Monarchy"
"In this original and engaging work, we are shown a series of
detailed, gripping scandals and how they were instrumental in
shaping the world of Georgian politics and in laying the ground for
Britain's move toward a modern democracy. The stories are vividly
told-the actors move across the stage in all their flawed humanity.
Clark's insights into the reforming of acceptable masculine and
feminine behavior and the role of sexual innuendo in struggles for
power are particularly original. With the publication of "Scandal,"
all types of political scandal, including those based on or
attributed to what current opinion defines as sexual misdemeanors,
will have to be taken with the seriousness they deserve, no longer
written off as the quaint by-ways of history."--Leonore Davidoff,
coauthor of "Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle
Class 1780-1850"
"In her fresh and exciting study, Anna Clark reframes a set of
well-known episodes in British political history during the reign
of George III and the Regency period. Combining political,
cultural, and gender history, she demonstrates in superb fashion
the importance of scandal, particularly sexual scandal, to
understanding the politics of the age.Clark has written a work of
originality that deserves a wide readership."--James Epstein,
author of "In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of
Popular Politics in Modern Britain"
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