Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self

by Patricia Meyer Spacks

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Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in eighteenth-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about insincerity.

In Privacy, Patricia Meyer Spacks explores eighteenth-century concerns about privacy and the strategies people developed to avoid...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226768600

ISBN13:9780226768601

Release Date:June 2003

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"

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