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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jagodzinski, Cecile M., 1951- Privacy and print. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999 (OCoLC)1235739074 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cecile M Jagodzinski |
ISBN: | 0813918391 9780813918396 |
OCLC Number: | 39391281 |
Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996. |
Description: | 218 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Reading and the creation of the (Protestant) private spirit -- Authoring the private self: reading in seventeenth-century conversion narratives -- "Extasies in letters": reading personal letters in print -- Margaret Cavendish and the virtues of publication -- Discovery, pornography, and the novel: Aphra Behn's Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister. |
Responsibility: | Cecile M. Jagodzinski. |
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Abstract:
This work proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right, as the very core of individuality, is connected in a complex fashion with the history of reading. The author examines representations of readers and reading in various genres of 17th-century literature.
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