The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge /
McKeon, Michael,1943-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-839) and index.
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.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Material culture.
Privacy.
Conduct of life.
Social history.
Civilization, Modern.
Privacy
Privacy in literature.