The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

"Kate Loveman explores the creation of the most famous English diary, how it came to be published, and the many remarkable roles it has since played in British culture. In so doing, she shows how Pepys's own strange history has become part of the history of the nation"--

Kate Loveman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester and an internationally recognized expert on Pepys and Restoration literature. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture, Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703, and the editor of The Diary of Samuel Pepys for Everyman.

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.