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Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890 Adams, Katherine (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina)
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Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890
Adams, Katherine (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina)
Owning Up argues that from its beginning the U. S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as nineteenth-century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, and to identify it with sacred ideals of democratic freedom and individuality, they also understood it as under threat or erasure. Using biographical and autobiographical writing as her primary archive, Adams traces the public narrative ofimperiled privacy across five decades. Her analyses begin with the premise that nineteenth-century conceptions of privacy became meaningful only in negative relation to the encroaching forces of market capitalism and commodification. Where previous studies treat privacy as a stable category whose definingfeatures are middle-class domesticity and femininity, Owning Up contends that privacy is an empty category that lacks fixed content and requires constant re-articulation via panic narratives. Chapters look at how the discourse of threatened privacy develops in conjunction with Romantic idealism and antebellum reform, racial reconstruction and the ethic of self-rights, and laissez faire Social Darwinism, and culminates at the end of the century in calls for legislation to protect theAmerican individual's 'right to be let alone.'
272 pages, 4 black and white half tone illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 10, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195336801 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 235 × 23 mm · 552 g |
| Language | English |
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