Ronald Huebert

Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare

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Produktbeschreibung

In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare’s time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647916
• ISBN-10: 1442647914
• Artikelnr.: 43858427

Autorenporträt

Ronald Huebert is a professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and Carnegie Professor at the University of King’s College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Bibliographical Note
 
Introduction Privacy: The Early Social History of a Word
Chapter 1. Invasions of Privacy in Shakespeare
Chapter 2. Private Devotions
Chapter 3. Voyeurism
Chapter 4. The Commonplace Book and the Private Self
Chapter 5. Privacy and Gender
Chapter 6. Privacy in Paradise
Chapter 7. Privacy and Dissidence
Chapter 8. ‘A Fine and Private Place’: Andrew Marvell
Conclusion