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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969209603321

Autore

Margolis Stacey <1966->

Titolo

The public life of privacy in nineteenth-century American literature / / Stacey Margolis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2005

ISBN

9780822335368

0822335360

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

813/.309353

813.309353

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Discipline and punish -- Race and the law -- The public life.

Sommario/riassunto

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