The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge
"[Michael McKeon] asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries along with the institution of domesticity. This book draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience"--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2005
History
xxvii, 873 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801882203, 9780801885402, 0801882206, 080188540X
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The devolution of absolutism
Publishing the private
From state as family to family as state
Outside and inside work
Subdividing inside spaces
Sex and book sex
Motives for domestication
Mixed genres
Figures of domestication
The narration of public crisis
Behn's Love-letters
Toward the narration of private life
Secret history as autobiography
Secret history as novel
Variations on the domestic novel