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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主要作者: Shamir, Milette
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2006.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fj2sh
書本目錄:
  • Divided plots: gender symmetry and the architecture of domestic space
  • 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.