The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Stacey Margolis

Book Overview

Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an ideology of privacy that defined subjects in terms of their intentions and desires. She reveals how writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Henry James depicted a world in which characters could only be understood-and, more importantly, could only understand themselves-through their public actions. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335492
• ISBN13: 9780822335498
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"