The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England

Backscheider, Paula R. (EDT)/ Dykstal, Timothy (EDT)

Routledge（2017/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138180116
• DDC分類 942

Full Description

The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate.

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Paula R. Backscheider; Chapter 2 Introduction, Timothy Dykstal; Chapter 3 "Completing the Union": Critical Ennui, the Politics of Narrative, and the Reformation of Irish Cultural Identity, Mitzi Myers; Chapter 4 "As Easy as a Chimney Pot to Blacken": Catharine Macaulay "the Celebrated Female Historian ", Cecile Mazzucco-Than; Chapter 5 Publicizing Private History: Mary Carleton's Case in Court and in Print, Mary Jo Kietzman; Chapter 6 Eroticizing the Subject, or Royals in Drag: Reading the Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, Donna Landry; Chapter 7 Swift's Sermons, "Public Conscience," and the Privatization of Religion, Roger D. Lund; Chapter 8 The Construction of the Public Interest in the Debates over Fox's India Bill, Susan Staves; Chapter 9 William Godwin and the Pathological Public Sphere: Theorizing Communicative Action in the 1790s, Andrew McCann; Chapter 10 Public Loathing, Private Thoughts: Historical Representation in Helen Maria Williams ' Letters from France, Jack Fruchtman; Chapter 11 Vices, Benefits, and Civil Society: Mandeville, Habermas, and the Distinction between Public and Private, Gordon Schochet;