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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shamir, Milette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Privacy in literature.
Personal space in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Dwellings in literature.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
American prose literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Vie privee dans la litterature.
Habitations dans la litterature.
Espace personnel dans la litterature.
Architecture domestique dans la litterature.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Prose americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 hold.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780812204247

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