Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature /
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 hol...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©2006.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fj2sh |
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- Dream houses: divided interiority in three antebellum short stories
- The master's house divided: exposure and concealment in narratives of slavery
- Hawthorne's romance and the right to privacy
- Thoreau in suburbia: Walden and the liberal myth of private manhood
- "The manliest relations to men": Thoreau on privacy, intimacy, and writing.