The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge

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The secret history of domesticity : public, private, and the division of knowledge

Michael McKeon

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, c2005

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First published in hardback, 2005

Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-839) and index

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Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publics-society, public opinion, the market-and the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, subjectivity, and sexuality. McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of being-not a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relations-among them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel. A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Division of Knowledge The Public and the Private Domesticity Form and Spatial Representability Questions of Method Part I: The Age of Separations 1. 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? 2. 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? Publicness through Virtuality Publication and Personality Anonymity and Responsibility Libel versus Satire Characters, Authors, Readers Particulars and Generals Actual and Concrete Particularity 3. 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 4. Outside and Inside Work The Domestic Economy and Cottage Industry The Economic Basis of Separate Spheres Housewife as Governor The Whore's Labor The Whores Rhetorick 5. 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 6. Sex and Book Sex Sex Aristotle's Master-piece Onania Book Sex Protopornography: Sex and Religion Protopornography: Sex and Politics The Law of Obscene Libel Part II: Domestication as Form 7. 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 8. Mixed Genres Tragicomedy Romance Mock Epic Pastoral Christ in the House of Martha and Mary 9. Figures of Domestication Narrative Concentration Narrative Concretization Part III: Secret Histories 10. The Narration of Public Crisis What Is a Secret History? Sidney and Barclay Opening the King's Cabinet Opening the Queen's Closet Scudery Women and Romance The King Out of Power The King in Power The Secret of the Black Box The Secret of The Holy War 11. 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 12. 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 13. Secret History as Autobiography Preface on Congreve Manley's New Atalantis Manley's Rivella Postscript on Pope 14. Secret History as Novel Defoe and Swift Jane Barker and Mary Hearne Haywood's Secret Histories Richardson's Pamela 15. Variations on the Domestic Novel Fanny Hill Tristram Shandy Humphry Clinker Pride and Prejudice Notes Index

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