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

by Adams, Katherine.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780199868360 (ebook) :.Subject(s): 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 centuryOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: '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.

'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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