Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… at a lying in’. 3 But many features of two types of gossip are evident in the period. The first is akin to our own ‘celebrity gossip, rumour and scandal’ conducted largely by people who ‘know of’ but do not ‘know’ the people involved. 4 … social relationship with them). 5 This underlines the intimacy required for participation and is in sharp contrast to ‘celebrity gossip’. 5 . Such as Max Gluckman’s ‘Gossip and Scandal’, Current Anthropology (4:3, June 1963), p. 307-316. … is not, except in very rare cases, activity that is open to all and in which all perspectives are equally salient: non-celebrity gossip circles have delimited numbers of participants, and their anxieties are directed to particular reference …
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