Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature - Brossura

Shamir, Milette

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ISBN 10: 0812220234 ISBN 13: 9780812220230

Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Few 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Milette Shamir is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Tel Aviv University.

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Book by Shamir Milette

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0812220234
• ISBN 13: 9780812220230
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 282