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Representing Private Lives of the Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Representing Private Lives of the Enlightenment (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2010:11
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What constituted the 'private' in the eighteenth-century? In
Representing private lives of the Enlightenment authors look beyond
a simple equation of the private and the domestic to explore the
significance of the individual and its constructions of identity
and environment. Taking case studies from Russia, France, Italy and
England, specialists from a range of disciplines analyse
descriptions of the private situated largely outside the familial
context: the nobleman at the theatre or in his study, the woman in
her boudoir, portraitists and their subject, the solitary wanderer
in the public garden, the penitent at confession. This critical
approach provides a comparative framework that simultaneously
confirms the Enlightenment as a pan-European movement, both
intellectually and socially, whilst uncovering striking
counterpoints. What emerges is a unique sense of how individuals
from different classes and cultures sought to map their social and
domestic sphere, and an understanding of the permeable boundaries
separating private and public.
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