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.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| Cataloguing | Unknown | 47306-1002 | NO CONFIGURATION | 2 |