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Owning up

Adams, Katherine, 1964-

Owning up privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / [electronic resource] : Katherine Adams. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (304 p.) : ill.

Includes index.

'Owning Up' argues that from its beginning the U.S. discourse on privacy has been couched in terms of violation and dispossession, so that even as 19th century Americans came to regard privacy as a natural right, they also understood it as under threat or erasure.

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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--History and criticism.--19th century
Privacy in literature.
Privacy--Philosophy.
Privacy--History--United States--19th century.

PS366.A88 / A32 2009

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