Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Stacey Margolis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah. Klappentext Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life, it shows that subjects can only be understood, and understand themselves, through Zusammenfassung Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life! it shows that subjects can only be understood! and understand themselves! through the production of public effects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Limits of Privacy 1 Part 1: Discipline and Punish 1. The Blithedale Romance and Other Tales of Association 17 2. The Rules of the Game: Punishment in The Wide Wide World 51 Part 2: Race and the Law 3. Huckleberry Finn; or, Consequences 81 4. The Veil of Cedars: Charles Chesnutt and Conversion 107 Part 3: The Public Life 5. Addiction and the Ends of Desire 141 6. Homo-Formalism: Analogy in The Sacred Fount 169 Notes 197 Index 231

Product details

• Authors: Margolis, Stacey Margolis, Stacey Margolis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2005
• EAN: 9780822335368
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3536-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies