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When Private Talk Goes Public

Gossip in American History

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  1. Kathleen A. Feeley
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kathleen A. Feeley, Jennifer Frost
    Pages 1-16

  3. “They make one very handsome Mirkin amongst them”: Gossip and Church Politics in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Virginia

    • Christine Eisel
    Pages 17-38

  4. “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
    Pages 39-58

  5. Governed by Gossip: The Personal Letters and Public Purpose of Philip Ludwell in Early-Eighteenth-Century Virginia

    • Virginia Price
    Pages 59-78

  6. The Infamous Anne Royall: Jacksonian Gossip, Scribbler, and Scold

    • Nancy Isenberg
    Pages 79-100

  7. “Gadding,” “Gainsaying,” and Negotiating Gossip in the Antebellum Black Press

    • Erica L. Ball
    Pages 101-121

  8. Gossip Law

    • Samantha Barbas
    Pages 123-138

  9. Diplomacy and Gossip: Information Gathering in the US Foreign Service, 1900–1940

    • Molly M. Wood
    Pages 139-159

  10. “As Told By Helen Ferguson”: Hollywood Publicity, Gender, and the Public Sphere

    • Mary Desjardins
    Pages 161-182

  11. Gossip in the Women’s Pages: Legitimizing the Work of Female Journalists in the 1950s and 1960s

    • Kimberly Wilmot Voss
    Pages 183-202

  12. The Smearing of Joe McCarthy: The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics

    • Andrea Friedman
    Pages 203-223

  13. Gossip Goes Mainstream: People Magazine, the National Enquirer, and the Rise of Personality Journalism

    • Anne Helen Petersen
    Pages 225-247

  14. Is Charles Trippy Famous? Twenty-First-Century Celebrity Gossip on Internet Killed Television

    • Tim Seiber
    Pages 249-266

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-269
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About this book

Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.

About the authors

Christine Eisel, Bowling Green State University, USA Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University; USA Virginia Price, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, USA Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University, USA Erica L. Ball, California State University, Fullerton, USA Samantha Barbas, University of Buffalo, USA Molly M. Wood, Wittenberg University, USA Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College, USA Kimberly Wilmot Voss, University of Central Florida, USA Andrea Friedman, Washington University, St. Louis, USA Anne Helen Petersen, Whitman College, USA Tim Seiber, University of Redlands, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: When Private Talk Goes Public

  • Book Subtitle: Gossip in American History

  • Editors: Kathleen A. Feeley, Jennifer Frost

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137442307

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44229-1Published: 20 June 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49502-3Published: 20 June 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44230-7Published: 06 August 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 269

  • Topics: Journalism, Cultural History, History of the Americas, Sociology, general, Social History, US History

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