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Faith in Exposure - Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Hardcover)
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Faith in Exposure - Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Studies
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Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening
tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive
freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They
are united, though, by the fact that both are rooted in our
culture's understanding of privacy. Faith in Exposure shows how,
over the course of the nineteenth century, privacy came to
encompass such contradictions-both underpinning the right to sexual
and reproductive rights but also undermining them in the name of
religious freedom. Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of
secular studies, Faith in Exposure brings a postsecular orientation
to the historical emergence of modern privacy. The book explains
this emergence through two interlocking stories. The first examines
the legal and cultural connection of religion with the private
sphere, showing how privacy became a moral concept that informs how
we debate the right to be shielded from state interference, as well
as who will be afforded or denied this protection. This conflation
of religion with privacy gave rise, the book argues, to a "secular
sensibility" that was especially invested in authenticity and the
exposure of hypocrisy in others. The second story examines the
development of this "secular sensibility" of privacy through
nineteenth-century novels. The preoccupation of the novel form with
private life, and especially its dependence on revelations of
private desire and sexual secrets, made it the perfect vehicle for
suggesting that exposure might be synonymous with morality itself.
Each chapter places key authors into wider contexts of popular
fiction and periodical press debates. From fears over religious
infidelity to controversies over what constituted a modern marriage
and conspiracy theories about abolitionists, these were the
contests, Justine S. Murison argues, that helped privacy emerge as
both a sensibility and a right in modern, secular America.
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