Privacy : Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self.

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Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in eighteenth-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about insi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Temas:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Privacy in literature.
Secrecy in literature.
Self in literature.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Vie privée dans la littérature.
Secret dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
English fiction
Privacy in literature
Secrecy in literature
Self in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; 1. Privacies; 2. Privacies of Reading; 3. The Performance of Sensibility; 4. Privacy, Dissimulation, and Propriety; 5. Private Conversations; 6. Exposures: Sex, Privacy, and Sensibility; 7. Trivial Pursuits; 8. Privacy as Enablement; Afterword; Works Cited; Index.

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