The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge
by
 
McKeon, Michael, 1943-

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

Author
McKeon, Michael, 1943-

ISBN
9780801882203
 
9780801885402

Personal Author
McKeon, Michael, 1943-

Publication Information
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Physical Description
xxvii, 873 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note
Formerly CIP.

Contents
Ch. 1. The devolution of absolutism -- Ch. 2. Publishing the private -- Ch. 3. From state as family to family as state -- Ch. 4. Outside and inside work -- Ch. 5. Subdividing inside spaces -- Ch. 6. Sex and book sex -- Ch. 7. Motives for domestication -- Ch. 8. Mixed genres -- Ch. 9. Figures of domestication -- Ch. 10. The narration of public crisis -- Ch. 11. Behn's love-letters -- Ch. 12. Toward the narration of private life -- Ch. 13. Secret history as autobiography -- Ch. 14. Secret history as novel -- Ch. 15. Variations on the domestic novel.

Subject Term
Knowledge, Sociology of.
 
Material culture.
 
Privacy.
 
Conduct of life.
 
Social history.
 
Civilization, Modern.
 
Privacy -- England -- History.
 
Privacy in literature.

Geographic Term
England -- Social life and customs.


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