Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing

Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams.

'Owning Up' argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as 19th century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, they also understood it as under threat or erasure.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Katherine, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Autobiography > Women authors.
Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Privacy in literature.
Privacy > Philosophy.
Privacy > United States > History > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > Women authors
American prose literature > Women authors
Autobiography > Women authors
Privacy
Privacy in literature
Women authors, American > Biography
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Description
Summary:'Owning Up' argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as 19th century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, they also understood it as under threat or erasure.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.
ISBN:9780199714315
0199714312
9780199868360
0199868360
0195336801
9780195336801
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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