The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge

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Main Author: McKeon, Michael, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Edition:John Hopkins pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Material culture.
Privacy.
Conduct of life.
Social history.
Civilization, Modern.
Privacy > England > History.
Privacy in literature.
Social Conditions
sociology of knowledge.
material culture (discipline)
social history.
ethics (philosophical concept)
England > Social life and customs.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The devolution of absolutism
  • Publishing the private
  • From state as family to family as state
  • Outside and inside work
  • Subdividing inside spaces
  • Sex and book sex
  • Motives for domestication
  • Mixed genres
  • Figures of domestication
  • The narration of public crisis
  • Behn's Love-letters
  • Toward the narration of private life
  • Secret history as autobiography
  • Secret history as novel
  • Variations on the domestic novel.

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