CAVANAGH, Dermot and KIRK, Tim. [editors] Subversion and Scurrility. Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present

[From the cover] "Gossip, rumour, scandal, and defamation are just some of the popular discourses examined in this collection of essays by an international group of scholars. Featuring research on a wide range of resource materials (including political literature, police reports, drama, ballads, contemporary fiction, poetry and caricatures) the volume provides an introduction to the history and sociology of dissent"