Research Catalog

Title

Owning up [electronic resource] : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams.

Author

Adams, Katherine, 1964-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Details

Description

1 online resource (vi, 264 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Owning up (Online)

Alternative Title

Owning up (Online)

Subject

• Autobiography > Women authors
• Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism
• American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Privacy in literature
• Privacy > Philosophy
• Privacy > United States > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2008041036

OCLC

ssj0000305415

Author

Adams, Katherine, 1964-

Title

Owning up [electronic resource] : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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