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Inexpressible Privacy : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204247
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inexpressible PrivacyDDC classification:
  • 818/.409353
LOC classification:
  • PS366.A88 -- S63 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Divided Plots: Gender Symmetry and the Architecture of Domestic Space -- 2 Dream Houses: Divided Interiority in Three Antebellum Short Stories -- 3 The Master's House Divided: Exposure and Concealment in Narratives of Slavery -- 4 Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy -- 5 Thoreau in Suburbia: Walden and the Liberal Myth of Private Manhood -- 6 "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of privacy. Milette Shamir traces the peculiarly American obsession with privacy back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of the concept took hold.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Divided Plots: Gender Symmetry and the Architecture of Domestic Space -- 2 Dream Houses: Divided Interiority in Three Antebellum Short Stories -- 3 The Master's House Divided: Exposure and Concealment in Narratives of Slavery -- 4 Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy -- 5 Thoreau in Suburbia: Walden and the Liberal Myth of Private Manhood -- 6 "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of privacy. Milette Shamir traces the peculiarly American obsession with privacy back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of the concept took hold.

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