The Secret History Of Domesticity

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Winner, Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Communication and Cultural Studies Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publics—society, public opinion, the market—and the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, subjectivity, and sexuality. McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of being—not a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relations—among them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel. A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.

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Genre : History
Author : Michael McKeon
Publisher : JHU Press
Release : 2006-12-26
File : 919 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780801896453


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Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : James Berardinelli
Publisher : Justin, Charles & Co.
Release : 2005
File : 627 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781932112405


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Genre : United States
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Release : 1977
File : 932 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105007375095


Reform Of The Federal Criminal Laws

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Genre : Criminal law
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures
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Release : 1971
File : 2014 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105024391547


The Last Days Of George Armstrong Custer

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In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. While numerous historians have investigated the battle, what happened on those plains hundreds of miles from even a whisper of civilization has been obscured by intrigue and deception starting with the very first shots fired. Custer's death and the defeat of the 7th Calvary by the Sioux was a shock to a nation that had come to believe that its westward expansion was a matter of destiny. While the first reports defended Custer, many have come to judge him by this single event, leveling claims of racism, disobedience, and incompetence. These false claims unjustly color Custer's otherwise extraordinarily life and fall far short of encompassing his service to his country. By reexamining the facts and putting Custer within the context of his time and his career as a soldier, Hatch's The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer reveals the untold and controversial truth of what really happened in the valley of the Little Bighorn, making it the definitive history of Custer's last stand. This history of charging cavalry, desperate defenses, and malicious intrigue finally sets the record straight for one of history's most dynamic and misunderstood figures.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Release : 2015-02-03
File : 383 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781466851979


The Oxford Companion To American Theatre

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First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have hailed its "wealth of authoritative information" (Back Stage), its "fascinating picture of the volatile American stage" (The Guardian), and its "well-chosen, illuminating facts" (Newsday). Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Completely updated by theater professor Thomas Hischak, the volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. The book covers not only classic works (such as Death of a Salesman) but also many commercially successful plays (such as Getting Gertie's Garter), plus entries on foreign figures that have influenced our dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter). New entries include recent plays such as Angels in America and Six Degrees of Separation, performers such as Eric Bogosian and Bill Irwin, playwrights like David Henry Hwang and Wendy Wasserstein, and relevant developments and issues including AIDS in American theatre, theatrical producing by Disney, and the rise in solo performance. Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference is ideal not only for students and scholars of theater, but everyone with a passion for the stage.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Gerald Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2004-05-06
File : 694 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199771158


Department Of State Appropriations Authorization Fiscal Year 1973

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Genre : Government publications
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Release : 1972
File : 872 Pages
ISBN-13 : LOC:0010339871A


Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Foreign Relations

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Genre : Legislative hearings
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Release : 1971
File : 1108 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3566444


The Spectator No 315 635

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Genre : Bookbinding
Author : Joseph Addison
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Release : 1837
File : 478 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3565693


Pick Me Up

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Genre : English periodicals
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Release : 1889
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : CHI:79419739