Privacy : Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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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.