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English literature --- Inheritance and succession --- Fathers and sons --- Gossip

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Conflict of generations --- Gossip. --- Older people --- Youth --- Attitudes

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English literature --- Gossip --- Gossip in literature --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- -English literature --- -Gossip --- Communication --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- American literature --- English literature - History and criticism --- American fiction - History and criticism --- American fiction. --- English literature. --- Gossip in literature. --- Gossip. --- History and criticism.

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The essays in this collection demonstrate how Fama and her sisters, gossip and rumour, were central in private and public discourses about state and society in early modern Europe. In an era when oral, scribal, visual, and print cultures competed to satisfy a growing public demand for ‘news’, gossip and rumour informed people about the actions and morals of their social and political elites, and they commonly enabled people who did not usually participate in politics to engage with the public discourses about religion, governance, and society which shaped their lives and the state. So while gossip and rumour might be scurrilous and entertaining, they nonetheless performed a vital political function, regulating communal and political behaviour in the upper social echelons, as well as in neighbourhoods lower down the social scale where they might constitute a form of popular justice. This timely interdisciplinary study explores how gossip and rumour functioned dualistically at all levels of the early modern state and society either to advance or to defame reputations, and thereby shape public opinion.

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1200-1799 --- Europe --- Geruchten in de literatuur --- Gossip in literature --- Kwaadsprekers in de literatuur --- Mauvaise langue dans la littérature --- Rumeures dans la littérature --- Rumor in literature --- Commérage --- Gossip --- Rumor --- Gossip in literature. --- Rumor in literature. --- Gossip. --- Rumor. --- History --- 1500-1799. --- Europe. --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 18th century

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The first study of modern and contemporary poetry's vibrant exchange with gossip. Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip's ostensible frivolity may seem at odds with common conceptions of poetry as serious, solitary expression. But in Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic relationship between gossip and American poetry, uncovering the unexpected ways that the history of the modern lyric intertwines with histories of sexuality in the twentieth century. Through nuanced readings of Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, and James Merrill--poets who famously absorbed and adapted the loose talk that swirled about them and their work--Bennett demonstrates how gossip became a vehicle for alternative modes of poetic practice. By attending to gossip's key role in modern and contemporary poetry, he recognizes the unpredictable ways that conventional understandings of the modern lyric poem have been shaped by, and afforded a uniquely suitable space for, the expression of queer sensibilities. Evincing an ear for good gossip, Bennett presents new and illuminating queer contexts for the influential poetry of these four culturally diverse poets. Word of Mouth establishes poetry as a neglected archive for our thinking about gossip and contributes a crucial queer perspective to current lyric studies and its renewed scholarly debate over the status and uses of the lyric genre.

Queer theory. --- Literature and society --- Gossip in literature. --- American poetry --- Gender identity --- History --- History and criticism. --- American poetry. --- Homosexuality and literature --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Privacy in literature. --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999. --- United States. --- Queer theory --- Gossip in literature