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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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This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.
Ethics --- Social Change --- Philosophy --- Sociology & Social History --- Philosophy & Religion --- Social Sciences --- Sympathy --- Social values --- History --- Pity --- Values --- Conduct of life --- Emotions --- Appeal to pity (Logical fallacy) --- Great Britain-History. --- Psychology --- Emotions. --- British literature. --- History, Modern. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Journalism. --- History of Psychology. --- Emotion. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Modern History. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Psychology. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Soul --- Mental health --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Great Britain --- Social sciences --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- European literature
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Journalism --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Psychology --- English literature --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- psychologie --- geschiedenis --- journalisten --- emoties --- Europese geschiedenis --- Engelse literatuur --- Great Britain --- Ireland
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