Shifting the boundaries : transformation of the languages of public and private in the eighteenth century
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Shifting the boundaries : transformation of the languages of public and private in the eighteenth century
University of Exeter Press, 1995
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A collection of essays, written by well-known specialists in their fields, which deal with the problematic and ever-shifting boundaries between the public and the private spheres in Western Europe in the eighteenth century. It examines and challenges the notion that there was a clear distinction between the emerging public sphere, which mediated between the State and individuals and provided a forum for Enlightenment debates, and the private, intimate or familial sphere.The essays focus on political, legal, historiographic, literary and gender issues in an attempt to create a more subtle and differentiated view of how men and women established and understood various 'public 'and 'private' domains, and used the languages of public and private actions and sentiments.
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Contents
Preface, Dario Castiglione
preface, Lesley Sharpe
this, that and the other - public, social and private in the 17th and 18th centuries, John Brewer
regendering the republic of letters - private association in the public sphere, 1780-89, Dena Goodman
addressing the public in 18th-century French fiction, Malcolm Cook
scandalous femininity - prostitution and 18th-century narrative, Vivien Jones
the fear of public disorder - marriage between revolution and reaction, Ursula Vogel
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel - argumentative strategies in the debate on the rights of women, Lesley Sharpe
literatures of publicity and the right to freedom of the press in late-18th-century Germany - the case of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, John Christian Laursen
censorship and the conception of the public in late-18th-century Germany - or, are censorship and public opinion mutually exclusive?, Edoardo Tortarolo
opinion's metamorphosis - Hume and the perception of public authority, Dario Castiglione
an impartial actor - the private and the public sphere in Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments", Maria Luisa Pesante
William Godwin and the idea of historical commemoration - history as public memory and private sentiment, Mark Salber Phillips
a historical postscript, Jonathan Barry
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