Inexpressible Privacy : : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature / / Milette Shamir.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleFew concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than that of privacy. What these discussions have lacked, however, is a historically informed sense of privacy's genealogy in U.S. culture....
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Shamir, Milette, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Inexpressible Privacy : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature / Milette Shamir. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2006 1 online resource (296 p.) : 8 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Divided Plots: Gender Symmetry and the Architecture of Domestic Space -- Chapter 2. Dream Houses: Divided Interiority in Three Antebellum Short Stories -- Chapter 3. The Master's House Divided: Exposure and Concealment in Narratives of Slavery -- Chapter 4. Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy -- Chapter 5. Thoreau in Suburbia: Walden and the Liberal Myth of Private Manhood -- Chapter 6. "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleFew concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than that of privacy. What these discussions have lacked, however, is a historically informed sense of privacy's genealogy in U.S. culture. Now, Milette Shamir traces this peculiarly American obsession back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of privacy took hold.Shamir explores how various discourses, as well as changes in the built environment, worked in tandem to seal, regulate, and sanctify private spaces, both domestic and subjective. She offers revelatory readings of texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and other, less familiar antebellum writers and looks to a wide array of sources, including architectural blueprints for private homes, legal cases in which a "right to privacy" supplements and exceeds property rights, examples of political rhetoric vaunting the sacred inviolability of personal privacy, and conduct manuals prescribing new codes of behavior to protect against intrusion. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) American History. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812220230 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204247 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204247 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204247/original |
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Shamir, Milette, Shamir, Milette, Inexpressible Privacy : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Divided Plots: Gender Symmetry and the Architecture of Domestic Space -- Chapter 2. Dream Houses: Divided Interiority in Three Antebellum Short Stories -- Chapter 3. The Master's House Divided: Exposure and Concealment in Narratives of Slavery -- Chapter 4. Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy -- Chapter 5. Thoreau in Suburbia: Walden and the Liberal Myth of Private Manhood -- Chapter 6. "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Divided Plots: Gender Symmetry and the Architecture of Domestic Space -- Chapter 2. Dream Houses: Divided Interiority in Three Antebellum Short Stories -- Chapter 3. The Master's House Divided: Exposure and Concealment in Narratives of Slavery -- Chapter 4. Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy -- Chapter 5. Thoreau in Suburbia: Walden and the Liberal Myth of Private Manhood -- Chapter 6. "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Divided Plots: Gender Symmetry and the Architecture of Domestic Space -- Chapter 2. Dream Houses: Divided Interiority in Three Antebellum Short Stories -- Chapter 3. The Master's House Divided: Exposure and Concealment in Narratives of Slavery -- Chapter 4. Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy -- Chapter 5. Thoreau in Suburbia: Walden and the Liberal Myth of Private Manhood -- Chapter 6. "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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