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Contents Introduction The Division of Knowledge The Public and the Private Domesticity Form and Spatial Representability Questions of Method Part One: The Age of Separations Chapter One: The Devolution of Absolutism State and Civil Society From Tacit to Explicit Polis and Oikos The State and the Family Absolute Private Property Interest and the Public Interest Civic Humanism or Capitalist Ideology? From the Marketplace to the Market The Protestant Separation Conscientious Privacy and the Closet of Devotion What Is the Public Sphere? Chapter Two: Publishing the Private The Plasticity of Print Scribal Publication Print, Property, and the Public Interest Print Legislation and Copyright Knowledge and Secrecy Public Opinion What Was the Public Sphere? Publicity Through Virtuality Publication and Personality Anonymity and Responsibility Libel Versus Satire Characters, Authors, Readers Particulars and Generals Chapter Three: From State As Family to Family As State State As Family Family As State Coming Together Being Together Putting Asunder Tory Feminism and the Devolution of Absolutism Privacy and Pastoral Chapter Four: Outside and Inside Work The Domestic Economy and Protoindustrialization The Economic Basis of Separate Spheres Housewife As Governor The Whore's Labor The Whores Rhetorick Chapter Five: Subdividing Inside Spaces Separating Out "Science" The Royal Household Cabinet and Closet Secrets and the Secretary Noble and Gentle Households The Curtain Lecture Households of the Middling Sort Where the Poor Should Live Chapter Six: Sex and Book Sex Sex Aristotle's Master-piece Onania Book Sex Proto-Pornography: Sex and Religion Proto-Pornography: Sex and Politics The Law of Obscene Libel Part Two: Domestication as Form Chapter Seven: Motives For Domestication The Productivity of the Division of Knowledge Domestication As Hermeneutics Domestication As Pedagogy Disembedding Epistemology From Social Status Scientific Disinterestedness Civic Disinterestedness Aesthetic Disinterestedness Aesthetic Response Aesthetic Judgment Social Psychology and Political Economy Aesthetic Value and Exchange Value Chapter Eight: Mixed Genres Tragicomedy Romance Mock-Epic Pastoral Christ in the House of Martha and Mary Chapter Nine: Figures of Domestication Narrative Concentration Politics Economics Narrative Concretization Making Ethical Subjects Female Ethical Subjectivity Narrator As Mother Author As Example Part Three: Secret Histories Chapter Ten: The Narration of Public Crisis What Is a Secret History? Sidney and Barclay Opening the King's Cabinet Opening the Queen's Closet Scudéry Women and Romance The King Out of Power The King In Power The Secret of the Black Box The Secret of The Holy War Chapter Eleven: Behn's Love-Letters Love Versus War? Love Versus Friendship Fathers Versus Children Effeminacy and the Public Wife Gender Without Sex From Epistolary to Third Person From Female Duplicity to Female Interiority Love-Letters and Pornography Chapter Twelve: Toward the Narration of Private Life The Secret of the Warming Pan The Private Lives of William, Mary, and Anne The Privatization of the Secret History The Strange Case of Beau Wilson Wilson and the She-Favorite The Sodomitical Wilson Chapter Thirteen: Secret History As Autobiography Preface on Congreve Manley's New Atalantis Manley's Rivella Postscript on Pope Chapter Fourteen: Secret History As Novel Defoe and Swift Jame Barker and Mary Hearne Haywood's Secret Histories Richardson Family Politics Housework As House Work Clothing: Ethics, Knowledge, Sex Domesticity and the Closet Chapter Fifteen: Variations on The Domestic Novel Fanny Hill Virtuality Through Metaphor Comparative Interiors Pleasure Itself Tristram Shandy Sense and Sensibility The Double Failure of the Line Humphry Clinker A Family of Originals Family Romance Pastoral As Dialectic Disinterested Narration Pride and Prejudice Internalizing the Marriage Choice The Third-Person Effect Free Indirect Discourse Interiority: Characters and Houses The Ideology of the Domestic Novel
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Material culture.
Privacy.
Conduct of life.
Social history.
Civilization, Modern.
England -- Social life and customs.
Privacy -- England -- History.
Privacy in literature.