Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… 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 It has few costs to those … Merry suggests that we might think of such gossip as (usually) lacking any deterrent effect, in ‘Rethinking Gossip and Scandal‘ in Donald Black (ed.), Toward a General Theory of Social Control, v. 1 (Academic Press, Inc., 1984), p. 271-302, … 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. Clearly, conversation may involve the passing of social …
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