ISBN:
9780714642758
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (278 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps ""natural"". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Introduction; ""Completing the Union"": Critical Ennui, the Politics of Narrative, and the Reformation of Irish Cultural Identity; ""As Easy as a Chimney Pot to Blacken"": Catharine Macaulay ""the Celebrated Female Historian""; Publicizing Private History: Mary Carleton's Case in Court and in Print; Eroticizing the Subject, or Royals in Drag: Reading the Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett; Swift's Sermons, ""Public Conscience,"" and the Privatization of Religion
Description / Table of Contents:
The Construction of the Public Interest in the Debates over Fox's India BillsWilliam Godwin and the Pathological Public Sphere: Theorizing Communicative Action in the 1790s; Public Loathing, Private Thoughts: Historical Representation in Helen Maria Williams' Letters from France; Vices, Benefits, and Civil Society: Mandeville, Habermas, and the Distinction between Public and Private
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
