By means of a close examination of numerous pamphlets, sermons, satires and other forms of polemical literature, this article discusses the reputation of professional informers in 17th-early 18th century. It focusses especially on Dissenters' attacks on this instrument of the Stuart repression after the Restoration, and then on the Societies for the Reformation of Manners' attempts to defend and construct a respectable 'public service' image for the informers paid by the Societies to hunt down blasphemers, lewd women and other 'disorderly persons'.

Reforming Informing in the Long Eighteenth-Century

CLEGG, Jeanne Frances
2004-01-01

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By means of a close examination of numerous pamphlets, sermons, satires and other forms of polemical literature, this article discusses the reputation of professional informers in 17th-early 18th century. It focusses especially on Dissenters' attacks on this instrument of the Stuart repression after the Restoration, and then on the Societies for the Reformation of Manners' attempts to defend and construct a respectable 'public service' image for the informers paid by the Societies to hunt down blasphemers, lewd women and other 'disorderly persons'.
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