عنوان

Owning up :

شابک

0195336801

شابک

9780195336801

شماره

b787129

عنوان اصلي

Owning up :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Katherine Adams.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2009.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

vi, 264 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction: Imperiled privacy -- Tarnished icons, shining lives : Fuller's publication of privacy -- Stowe's truths : privacy, privation, and the mob -- Freedom and ballgowns : Elizabeth Keckley's executive domesticity -- The cost of self in two Alcott utopias.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

This book provides a model for interpreting the U.S. discourse on privacy. Focusing on the formative period of the nineteenth century, the author shows that conceptions of privacy became meaningful only when posed in opposition to the encroaching forces of market capitalism and commodification. Even as Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right and to identify it with sacred ideals of democratic freedom, they also learned to think of it as fragile and under threat. She argues that narratives of violation and dispossession played a fundamental role in the emergence of U.S. privacy discourse and in the influence this discourse continues to exert within U.S. culture. Using writing by and about women writers including Sojourner Truth, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Keckley and Louisa May Alcott, the author traces the figure of imperiled privacy across five decades. Where previous studies of early American privacy have focused on white femininity and middle-class domesticity as defining features, this book contends that privacy is an empty category. Without a fixed content of its own, privacy acquires meaning only by being articulated-and constantly re-articulated-against threats of invasion and loss. The author looks at how such narratives operate within particular political and economic contexts, including antebellum reform, racial reconstruction, free labor ideology, and laissez faire social Darwinism. The analysis concludes at the end of the century with calls for legislation to protect the individual's "right to be let alone," a culminating moment in the discourse of threatened privacy that informs the American sense of self to this day.

موضوع مستند نشده

Alcott, Louisa May,1832-1888.

موضوع مستند نشده

Fuller, Margaret,1810-1850.

موضوع مستند نشده

Keckley, Elizabeth,1824-1907.

موضوع مستند نشده

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896.

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

American prose literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiography-- Women authors.

موضوع مستند نشده

Privacy in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Privacy-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Privacy-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Women authors, American-- Biography-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

18.06 Anglo-American literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- Women authors.

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

American prose literature-- Women authors.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiography-- Women authors.

موضوع مستند نشده

Privacy in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Privacy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Women authors, American-- Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Adams, Katherine,1964-

تاريخ عمليات

20201207005134.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y