When Private Talk Goes Public Gossip in American History
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 Americ
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When Private Talk Goes Public Gossip in American History Edited by
Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost
WHEN PRIVATE TALK GOES PUBLIC
Copyright © Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-44229-1 All rights reserved. Andrea Friedman, “The Smearing of Joe McCarthy: The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics” was originally published in another form in American Quarterly 57..4 (2005): 1105–1129. ©2005 The American Studies Association. Reprinted with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press. Anne Helen Petersen, “Gossip Goes Mainstream: People Magazine, the National Enquirer, and the Rise of Personality Journalism” was originally published in another form as “Towards an Industrial History of Celebrity Gossip: The National Enquirer, People Magazine and ‘Personality Journalism’ in the 1970s,” Celebrity Studies 2.2 (2011): 31–49. © Taylor and Francis. Reprinted with permission of Taylor and Francis. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49502-3 DOI 10.1057/9781137442307
ISBN 978-1-137-44230-7 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data When private talk goes public : gossip in American history / [edited by] Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost.—First [edition]. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. 1. Gossip—United States—History. I. Feeley, Kathleen A., editor. BJ1535.G6W44 2014 302.24—dc23
2014006206
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: August 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For our mothers, Elizabeth A. Feeley and Ann B. Frost
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Contents
List of Figures
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost 1 “They make one very handsome Mirkin amongst them”: Gossip and Church Politics in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Virginia Christine Eisel 2 “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 3 Governed by Gossip: The Personal Letters and Public Purpose of Philip Ludwell in Early-Eighteenth-Century Virginia Virginia Price 4 The Infamous Anne Royall: Jacksonian Gossip, Scribbler, and Scold Nancy Isenberg 5 “Gadding,” “Gainsaying,” and Negotiating Gossip in the Antebellum Black Press Erica L. Ball 6 Gossip Law Samanth
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