Title: The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge /
Authors: McKeon, Michael, 1943-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Knowledge, Sociology of.; Material culture.; Privacy.; Conduct of life.; Social history.; Civilization, Modern.; Privacy England History.; Privacy in literature.; Sociologie de la connaissance.; Culture matérielle.; Vie privée.; Morale pratique.; Histoire sociale.; Civilisation moderne et contemporaine.; Vie privée Angleterre Histoire.; Vie privée dans la littérature.; England Social life and customs.; Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes.
Abstract: "[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.
Contents: 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.