Gossip
Published on 30. May 2012
287 pages
978-0-307-80666-6 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip; examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip; and analyzes gossip--as subject and literary technique--in plays, letters, biographies, and novels.
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Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Gossip
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05/1985
Alfred A. Knopf
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Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Its Problematics
- 2: Its Reputation
- 3: How It Feels
- 4: Borderlands
- 5: Biography: Moral and Physical Truth
- 6: "What Would the World Say?"
- 7: The Talent of Ready Utterance
- 8: Social Speculation
- 9: Stepping Down from the Platform
- 10: The Living Breath of Event
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
