 | Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature Subjects: 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; Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of privacy. Milette Shamir traces the peculiarly American obsession with privacy back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of the concept took hold. Milette Shamir is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Tel Aviv University. |
