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The public life of privacy in nineteenth-century American literature / Stacey Margolis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margolis, Stacey, 1966-
- Series:
- New Americanists.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Privacy in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
- Public opinion in literature.
- Personal space in literature.
- Social values in literature.
- Individualism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life, it shows that subjects can only be understood, and understand themselves, through
- Contents:
- Discipline and punish
- Race and the law
- The public life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822335368
- 0822335360
- OCLC:
- 317321951
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