Owning up [electronic resource] : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams.
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TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : illISBN: - 9780199868360 (ebook) :
- 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
- 810.9492072 22
- PS366.A88 A32 2009
'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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Includes index.
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