LEADER 03574nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910465750403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-15083-2 010 $a9786613150837 010 $a0-226-76861-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226768618 035 $a(CKB)2560000000073382 035 $a(EBL)689333 035 $a(OCoLC)721195551 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525038 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12231266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525038 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488333 035 $a(PQKB)10520931 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000116222 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC689333 035 $a(DE-B1597)524859 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226768618 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL689333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468497 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL315083 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000073382 100 $a20021031d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrivacy$b[electronic resource] $econcealing the eighteenth-century self /$fPatricia Meyer Spacks 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-76860-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrivacies -- Privacies of reading -- The performance of sensibility -- Privacy, dissimulation, and propriety -- Private conversations -- Exposures : sex, privacy, and sensibility -- Trivial pursuits -- Privacy as enablement. 330 $aToday we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in eighteenth-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about insincerity. In Privacy, Patricia Meyer Spacks explores eighteenth-century concerns about privacy and the strategies people developed to avoid public scrutiny and social pressure. She examines, for instance, the way people hid behind common rules of etiquette to mask their innermost feelings and how, in fact, people were taught to employ such devices. She considers the erotic overtones that privacy aroused in its suppression of deeper desires. And perhaps most important, she explores the idea of privacy as a societal threat-one that bred pretense and hypocrisy in its practitioners. Through inspired readings of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, along with a penetrating glimpse into diaries, autobiographies, poems, and works of pornography written during the period, Spacks ultimately shows how writers charted the imaginative possibilities of privacy and its social repercussions. Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, Spacks's new work will fascinate anyone who has relished concealment or mourned its recent demise. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPrivacy in literature 606 $aSecrecy in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPrivacy in literature. 615 0$aSecrecy in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a823/.509353 700 $aSpacks$b Patricia Ann Meyer$0458628 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465750403321 996 $aPrivacy$92269381 997 $aUNINA