Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shamir, Milette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2006.
Temas:
1800-1899
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Personal space in literature.
Dwellings in literature.
Privacy in literature.
Prose américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
Espace personnel dans la littérature.
Habitations dans la littérature.
Vie privée dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
Architecture, Domestic, in literature
Dwellings in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Personal space in literature
Privacy in literature
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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