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Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing /

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Main Author: Adams, Katherine, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Autobiography > Women authors.
Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Privacy in literature.
Privacy > Philosophy.
Privacy > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Imperiled privacy
  • Tarnished icons, shining lives : Fuller's publication of privacy
  • Stowe's truths : privacy, privation, and the mob
  • Freedom and ballgowns : Elizabeth Keckley's executive domesticity
  • The cost of self in two Alcott utopias.