Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self

by Patricia Meyer Spacks

Book Overview

Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in eighteenth-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone and people hiding their true thoughts from one another in conversation generated fears of uncontrollable fantasies and profound anxieties about insincerity.

In Privacy, Patricia Meyer Spacks explores eighteenth-century concerns about privacy and the strategies people developed to avoid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226768600
• ISBN13: 9780226768601
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"