Faith in exposure : privacy and secularism in the nineteenth-century United States /

Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are united, though, by the fact that both are rooted in our culture's understanding of privacy. Faith in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murison, Justine S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Privacy > United States > History > 19th century.
Secularism > United States > History > 19th century.
Freedom of religion > United States > History > 19th century.
Privacy in literature.
Secularism in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Privacy, Right of > Moral and ethical aspects.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Vie privée > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Liberté religieuse > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie privée dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
United States.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION Our Faith in Exposure
  • CHAPTER 1 Infidelity
  • CHAPTER 2 Matrimony
  • CHAPTER 3 Nudity
  • CHAPTER 4 Conspiracy
  • CHAPTER 5 Hypocrisy
  • CHAPTER 6 Secrecy
  • EPILOGUE The Ends of Privacy
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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