'I Hope I Don't Intrude': Privacy and Its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198725035
ISBN13:9780198725039
Release Date:July 2015
Publisher:Oxford University Press (UK)
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.4"
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