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Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature

Title
Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature / Milette Shamir.
Author
Shamir, Milette.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.

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Description
282 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
Contents
Divided plots: gender symmetry and the architecture of domestic space -- Dream houses: divided interiority in three antebellum short stories -- The master's house divided: exposure and concealment in narratives of slavery -- Hawthorne's romance and the right to privacy -- Thoreau in suburbia: Walden and the liberal myth of private manhood -- "The manliest relations to men": Thoreau on privacy, intimacy, and writing.
Call Number
JFE 06-2397
ISBN
0812239067 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005042342
  • 9780812239065
OCLC
60791694
Author
Shamir, Milette.
Title
Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature / Milette Shamir.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
9780812239065
Research Call Number
JFE 06-2397
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