Title: The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Description: Summary:Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life, it shows that subjects can only be understood, and understand themselves, through
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature and society, Psychology, Individualism
Time periods: 19th century