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Privacy : concealing the eighteenth-century self

Author:Patricia Meyer Spacks

Summary:Exploring eighteenth century concerns about privacy, this examination of scrutiny and social pressure looks at diaries, autobiographies, poems and works of pornography in order to show the possibilities of privacy, and its social repercussions.

Print Book, English, ©2003

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2003

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:vii, 242 s

ISBN:

9780226768601, 0226768600

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:186355696

Subjects:

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Engelsk litteratur historia 1700-talet

English fiction

English fiction 18th century History and criticism

Geschichte 1800-1900

Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature

Privacy in literature

Privatliv i litteraturen

Roman anglais 18e siècle Histoire et critique

Secrecy in literature

Secret dans la littérature

Self in literature

Vie privée dans la littérature

Contents:

Privacies

Privacies of reading

The performance of sensibility

Privacy, dissimulation, and propriety

Private conversations

Exposures: sex, privacy, and sensibility

Trivial pursuits

Privacy as enablement