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Inexpressible privacy the interior life of antebellum American literature

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

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Description
1 online resource (282 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Inexpressible privacy (Online)
Alternative Title
Inexpressible privacy (Online)
Subject
  • American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century
  • Architecture, Domestic, in literature
  • Personal space in literature
  • Dwellings in literature
  • Privacy in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2005042342
OCLC
ssj0001079776
Author
Shamir, Milette.
Title
Inexpressible privacy [electronic resource] : 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.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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