When private talk goes public : gossip in American history / edited by Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feeley, Kathleen A., editor.

Frost, Jennifer, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gossip--United States--History.

Gossip.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction / Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost

"They make one very handsome mirkin amongst them": gossip and church politics in seventeenth-century Virginia / Christine Eisel

"The time when there was so much talk of the witchcraft in this country": gossip and the Essex County witchcraft crisis of 1692 / Mary Beth Norton

Governed by gossip: the personal letters and public purpose of Philip Ludwell in early-eighteenth-century Virginia / Virginia Price

The infamous Anne Royall: Jacksonian gossip, scribbler, and scold / Nancy Isenberg

"Gadding," "gainsaying," and negotiating gossip in the antebellum black press / Erica L. Ball

Gossip law / Samantha Barbas

Diplomacy and gossip: information-gathering in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940 / Molly M. Wood

"As told by Helen Ferguson": Hollywood publicity, gender, and the public sphere / Mary Desjardins

Gossip in the women's pages: legitimizing the work of female journalists in the 1950s and 1960s / Kimberly Wilmot Voss

The smearing of Joe McCarthy: the lavender scare, gossip, and Cold War politics / Andrea Friedman

Gossip goes mainstream: People magazine, the National Enquirer, and the rise of personality journalism / Anne Helen Petersen

Is Charles Trippy famous?: twenty-first-century celebrity gossip on Internet Killed Television / Tim Seiber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781137442291

1137442298

OCLC:

880520987