Jan Gordon proposes that a reviled communicational 'interest' in
gossip and its purveyors be given its proper due in the development
of the novel in Britain. Commencing with Sir Walter Scott's
historically persecuted (but economically and politically
necessary) androgynous voices in caves and concluding with Oscar
Wilde's premature celebration of gossip at the very moment it is
transformed from public opinion to public judgment, the author
finds gossip to be both deforming and shaping nineteenth century
'letters' in surprising ways. Like the ignominious orphan-figure of
nineteenth-century fiction, gossip is the 'unacknowledged
reproduction' searching for a political antecedence which might
lend a legitimacy to its often discontinuous testimony, for a
culture historically resistant to obtrusive voices.
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