Description: Further DetailsTitle: Inexpressible PrivacyCondition: NewSubtitle: The Interior Life of Antebellum American LiteratureISBN-10: 0812220234EAN: 9780812220230ISBN: 9780812220230Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/18/2008Description: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleFew concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than that of privacy. What these discussions have lacked, however, is a historically informed sense of privacy's genealogy in U.S. culture. Now, Milette Shamir traces this peculiarly American obsession back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of privacy took hold.Shamir explores how various discourses, as well as changes in the built environment, worked in tandem to seal, regulate, and sanctify private spaces, both domestic and subjective. She offers revelatory readings of texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and other, less familiar antebellum writers and looks to a wide array of sources, including architectural blueprints for private homes, legal cases in which a "right to privacy" supplements and exceeds property rights, examples of political rhetoric vaunting the sacred inviolability of personal privacy, and conduct manuals prescribing new codes of behavior to protect against intrusion.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Milette ShamirGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Inexpressible Privacy
Title: Inexpressible Privacy
Subtitle: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature
ISBN-10: 0812220234
EAN: 9780812220230
ISBN: 9780812220230
Release Date: 06/18/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Inexpressible Privacy : the Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Buildings / Residential, Rhetoric, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2008
Item Weight: 16.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Architecture, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Milette Shamir
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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