The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of KnowledgeJHU Press, 26.12.2006 г. - 904 страници Winner, Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Communication and Cultural Studies Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publics—society, public opinion, the market—and the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, subjectivity, and sexuality. McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of being—not a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relations—among them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel. A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another. |
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... story can only make sense within the more general story of modern privacy and its separation out from the realm of the public. As much as any other categorial abstractions, the public and the private have been fruitfully susceptible to ...
... story about how the tendency toward conceptual division came to shape modern thought regarding the public and the private by relying to some degree on the fruits of that tendency to make my story not only persuasive but also accurate ...
... story that need be re- called only in its outlines.92 In the eyes of its adversaries, the Roman Catholic Church interposed be- tween God and the believer a hierarchy of ecclesiastical rituals and powers whose officious mediations ...
... story ; for despite the legislative vindi- cation of religious dissent , the predominant face of religion in the modern world is not a public one . When governmental constraint was finally curtailed —when English state policy became ...
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