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

Author: McKeon, Michael, 1943-
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Edition: John Hopkins pbk. ed.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 873 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

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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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9780801896453 (electronic bk.)
0801896452 (electronic bk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-839) and index.

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