The intersections of the public and private spheres in early modern England

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The intersections of the public and private spheres in early modern England

edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Timothy Dystal [i.e. Dysktal]

Frank Cass, 1996

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Prose studies

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First published in a special issue of Prose studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, December 1995

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The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate.

Table of Contents

  • "Completing the Union" - critical "Ennui", the politics of narrative, and the reformation of Irish cultural identity, Mitzi Myers
  • "as easy as a chimney pot to blacken" - Catharine Macaulay "the celebrated female historian", Cecile Mazzucco-Than
  • publicizing private history - Mary Carleton's case in court and in print, Mary Jo Jietzman
  • eroticizing the subject, or royals in drag - reading the memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, Donna Landry
  • Swift's sermons, "public conscience" and the privatization of religion, Roger D. Lund
  • the construction of the public interest in the debates over Fox's India bills, Susan Staves
  • William Godwin and the pathological public sphere - theorizing communicative action in the 1790s, Andrew McCann
  • public loathing, private thoughts - historical representation in Helen Maria Williams' "Letters from France", Jack Fruchtman Jr
  • vices, benefits and civil society - Mandevill, Habermas and the distinction between public and private, Gordon Schochet.

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