'I Hope I Don't Intrude': Privacy and Its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by David Vincent

'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198725035
• ISBN13: 9780198725039
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.4"