Owning Up - Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890 - Bog af Katherine (Associate Professor of English Adams - Hardba
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..
Owning Up - Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890 - Katherine (Associate Professor of English Adams
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..