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

The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge / Michael McKeon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKeon, Michael, 1943-
Format: 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.
sociology of knowledge.
material culture (discipline)
social history.
ethics (philosophical concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Civilization, Modern
Conduct of life
Knowledge, Sociology of
Manners and customs
Material culture
Privacy
Privacy in literature
Social history
England > Social life and customs.
England
History
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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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