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Privacy (Hardcover)
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Privacy (Hardcover)
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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
public scrutiny and social pressure. She examines, for instance,
the way people hid behind common rules of etiquette to mask their
innermost feelings and how, in fact, people were taught to employ
such devices. She considers the erotic overtones that privacy
aroused in its suppression of deeper desires. And perhaps most
important, she explores the idea of privacy as a societal
threat--one that bred pretense and hypocrisy in its practitioners.
Through inspired readings of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding,
and Sterne, along with a penetrating glimpse into diaries,
autobiographies, poems, and works of pornography written during the
period, Spacks ultimately shows how writers charted the imaginative
possibilities of privacy and its social repercussions.
Finely nuanced and elegantly conceived, Spacks's new work will
fascinate anyone who has relished concealment or mourned its recent
demise.
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