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Author Margolis, Stacey, 1966-

Title The public life of privacy in nineteenth-century American literature / Stacey Margolis
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages)
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Contents Discipline and punish -- Race and the law -- The public life
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-229) and index
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Privacy in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Public opinion in literature.
Personal space in literature.
Social values in literature.
Individualism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction.
Individualism in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Literature and society.
Personal space in literature.
Privacy in literature.
Public opinion in literature.
Social values in literature.
Intimsphäre Motiv
Öffentlichkeit Motiv
Literatur
Privatheit Motiv
United States.
USA.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386674
0822386674