{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-domesticity-9780801885402","title":"The Secret History of Domesticity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe strength of the book lies in the wealth of historical, literary, and pictorial examples that evoke the texture of domesticity, from bedchambers to bigamy. New Yorker 2006 Its central argument is wonderfully simple... McKeon will set new agendas in the understanding of the early modern to modern eras. -- Brean S. Hammond Times Literary Supplement 2006 Those in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century cultural studies will find this book fascinating. Choice 2006 The scholarship is breathtaking and the intellectual analysis rigorous. -- Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 McKeon's scholarship is commanding, his erudition staggering, his systematic rigour and intellectual control steady and sure. -- John Richetti Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2007 A gift to all teachers and scholars of the British novel. -- Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley Christianity and Literature 2007 I have assigned this book to graduate students... Accounting for most of what has gone on in the last thirty years of scholarship in its dynamic synthesis, The Secret History of Domesticity lays the groundwork for new inquiry into eighteenth-century life. As a reader, as a scholar, and as a teacher, I am grateful for it. -- Erin Mackie Eighteenth-Century Life 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Division of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eThe Public and the Private\u003cbr\u003eDomesticity\u003cbr\u003eForm and Spatial Representability\u003cbr\u003eQuestions of Method\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Age of Separations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Devolution of Absolutism\u003cbr\u003eState and Civil Society\u003cbr\u003eFrom Tacit to Explicit\u003cbr\u003ePolis and Oikos\u003cbr\u003eThe State and the Family\u003cbr\u003eAbsolute Private Property\u003cbr\u003eInterest and the Public Interest\u003cbr\u003eCivic Humanism or Capitalist Ideology?\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Marketplace to the Market\u003cbr\u003eThe Protestant Separation\u003cbr\u003eConscientious Privacy and the Closet of Devotion\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is the Public Sphere?\u003cbr\u003e2. Publishing the Private\u003cbr\u003eThe Plasticity of Print\u003cbr\u003eScribal Publication\u003cbr\u003ePrint, Property, and the Public Interest\u003cbr\u003ePrint Legislation and Copyright\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge and Secrecy\u003cbr\u003ePublic Opinion\u003cbr\u003eWhat Was the Public Sphere?\u003cbr\u003ePublicness through Virtuality\u003cbr\u003ePublication and Personality\u003cbr\u003eAnonymity and Responsibility\u003cbr\u003eLibel versus Satire\u003cbr\u003eCharacters, Authors, Readers\u003cbr\u003eParticulars and Generals\u003cbr\u003eActual and Concrete Particularity\u003cbr\u003e3. From State as Family to Family as State\u003cbr\u003eState as Family\u003cbr\u003eFamily as State\u003cbr\u003eComing Together\u003cbr\u003eBeing Together\u003cbr\u003ePutting Asunder\u003cbr\u003eTory Feminism and the Devolution of Absolutism\u003cbr\u003ePrivacy and Pastoral\u003cbr\u003e4. Outside and Inside Work\u003cbr\u003eThe Domestic Economy and Cottage Industry\u003cbr\u003eThe Economic Basis of Separate Spheres\u003cbr\u003eHousewife as Governor\u003cbr\u003eThe Whore's Labor\u003cbr\u003eThe Whores Rhetorick\u003cbr\u003e5. Subdividing Inside Spaces\u003cbr\u003eSeparating Out \"Science\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Royal Household\u003cbr\u003eCabinet and Closet\u003cbr\u003eSecrets and the Secretary\u003cbr\u003eNoble and Gentle Households\u003cbr\u003eThe Curtain Lecture\u003cbr\u003eHouseholds of the Middling Sort\u003cbr\u003eWhere the Poor Should Live\u003cbr\u003e6. Sex and Book Sex\u003cbr\u003eSex\u003cbr\u003eAristotle's Master-piece\u003cbr\u003eOnania\u003cbr\u003eBook Sex\u003cbr\u003eProtopornography: Sex and Religion\u003cbr\u003eProtopornography: Sex and Politics\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Obscene Libel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Domestication as Form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Motives for Domestication\u003cbr\u003eThe Productivity of the Division of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eDomestication as Hermeneutics\u003cbr\u003eDomestication as Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003eDisembedding Epistemology from Social Status\u003cbr\u003eScientific Disinterestedness\u003cbr\u003eCivic Disinterestedness\u003cbr\u003eAesthetic Disinterestedness\u003cbr\u003e8. Mixed Genres\u003cbr\u003eTragicomedy\u003cbr\u003eRomance\u003cbr\u003eMock Epic\u003cbr\u003ePastoral\u003cbr\u003eChrist in the House of Martha and Mary\u003cbr\u003e9. Figures of Domestication\u003cbr\u003eNarrative Concentration\u003cbr\u003eNarrative Concretization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Secret Histories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. The Narration of Public Crisis\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is a Secret History?\u003cbr\u003eSidney and Barclay\u003cbr\u003eOpening the King's Cabinet\u003cbr\u003eOpening the Queen's Closet\u003cbr\u003eScudéry\u003cbr\u003eWomen and Romance\u003cbr\u003eThe King Out of Power\u003cbr\u003eThe King in Power\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret of the Black Box\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret of The Holy War\u003cbr\u003e11. Behn's Love-Letters\u003cbr\u003eLove versus War?\u003cbr\u003eLove versus Friendship\u003cbr\u003eFathers versus Children\u003cbr\u003eEffeminacy and the Public Wife\u003cbr\u003eGender without Sex\u003cbr\u003eFrom Epistolary to Third Person\u003cbr\u003eFrom Female Duplicity to Female Interiority\u003cbr\u003eLove-Letters and Pornography\u003cbr\u003e12. Toward the Narration of Private Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret of the Warming Pan\u003cbr\u003eThe Private Lives of William, Mary, and Anne\u003cbr\u003eThe Privatization of the Secret History\u003cbr\u003eThe Strange Case of Beau Wilson\u003cbr\u003e13. Secret History as Autobiography\u003cbr\u003ePreface on Congreve\u003cbr\u003eManley's New Atalantis\u003cbr\u003eManley's Rivella\u003cbr\u003ePostscript on Pope\u003cbr\u003e14. Secret History as Novel\u003cbr\u003eDefoe and Swift\u003cbr\u003eJane Barker and Mary Hearne\u003cbr\u003eHaywood's Secret Histories\u003cbr\u003eRichardson's Pamela\u003cbr\u003e15. Variations on the Domestic Novel\u003cbr\u003eFanny Hill\u003cbr\u003eTristram Shandy\u003cbr\u003eHumphry Clinker\u003cbr\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527625187671,"sku":"9780801885402","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801885402.jpg?v=1731868596","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-history-of-domesticity-9780801885402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}