Owning up
Subtitle: privacy, property and belonging in U.S. women's life writing, 1840-1890
By: Katherine Adams.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195336801
Subjects: Autobiography -- Women authors; Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Privacy in literature; Privacy -- Philosophy; Privacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tarnished icons, shining lives: Fuller's publication of privacy; title: Stowe's truths: privacy, privation and the mob; title: Freedom and ballgowns: Elizabeth Keckley's executive domesticity; title: The cost of self in two Alcott utopias.