Fama and her sisters : gossip and rumour in early modern Europe /
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| Imprint: | Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2015] |
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| Description: | vi, 240 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early European research ; v.7 Early European research ; v.7. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10176555 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: New Perspectives on Fama
- Whispering Fama: Talk and Reputation in Early Modern Society
- Telling Tales: Negotiating 'Fame' in Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage
- Witchcraft and Rumour in Renaissance Venice
- Rumour and Reputation in the Early Modern English Family
- Face-to-Face with the 'Flanders Mare': Fama and Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of Anne of Cleves
- Poison, Pregnancy, and Protestants: Gossip and Scandal at the Early Modern French Court
- The Queen of Bohemia's Daughter: Managing Rumour and Reputation in a Seventeenth-Century Dynasty
- Gossip, Intimacy, and the Early Modern Scottish Household
- The Pleasures and Perils of Gossip: Sociability, Scandal, and Plebeian Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Index
