...Jean Marie Lutes A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx . By Showalter Elaine . New York : Knopf . 2009 . xiv, 586 pp. Cloth , $30.00 ; paper , $16.95 . Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing . By...

...Ivy Schweitzer Duke University Press 2007 Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic . By Jeffrey Richards. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xi, 392 pp. $85.00. Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature . By Milette Shamir...

...Eden Osucha © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature . By Peter Coviello. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xii, 230 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century...

...Jeffrey Insko A familiar refrain in U.S. history, “leave me alone” has long been the preferred locution with which one affirms one's right to privacy. Insko's essay investigates a conceptual incoherence at the heart of the various, incompatible definitions and applications of the right to privacy...

... Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. By Deborah Nelson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2002. xxii, 209 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $17.50. Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative. By Patrick...

... University 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 212 of 246 Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy. By Louis A. Renza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xix, 277 pp. $44.95...

... visions of privacy, a proliferation of competing and resistant modes that cannot be reducible to the domestic or the political. I situate Melville’s Typee and Pierre within an emergent nineteenth-century discourse of privacy, still prevalent today, in which one’s private life operates to develop and...

.... copyright and privacy laws and to show how these complexly interrelated areas of legal discourse manifest themselves in Salinger's fiction. The two opposed rulings in the case (district and appellate courts) reveal the twin purposes of copyright law: to provide the public with great art through the granting...

... of privacy within the private sphere. The Decoration of Houses offers another example of domestic space reimagined to resist rather than embrace familial ties. Fraiman links the book's fifty-six photographs of immaculate, museum-like rooms to a fantasy of home purged of literal and emotional mess...

...Lorna Brittan Duke University Press 2007 Lorna Edith Wharton’s Alchemy of Publicity Brittan ​In the growing debate over the right to privacy in turn-of-the-century America, Scribner’s contributed an 1891 editorial claiming that one of the nation’s fundamental...

... . ———. 1954 . A Fable . New York : Random House . ———. ( 1955 ) 2004 . “ On Privacy .” In Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters . Edited by Meriwether James B. , 62 – 75 . New York : Random House . ———. 1961 . The Town . New York : Vintage . Fraser Nancy . 1992 . “ Rethinking...

...Milette Shamir Milette Shamir is associate professor of English and American studies at Tel Aviv University, where she heads the International Liberal Arts Program. She is the author of Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature (Penn State Univ. Press...

... Miller. Relying on the work of Elizabeth Dillon, Jonathan Beecher Field, and others, Traister reminds us that “privacy and publicity were mutually constitutive terms whose structural relationship was being worked out” (10), and together these books work out aspects of that relationship from the...

... charges of Avery’s defense counsel, whose strategy had been to attack Cornell’s reputation in order to maintain the possibility of suicide rather than murder. Denouncing the trial’s ‘‘indelicate exposure’’ of the victim, Williams claims a privacy for Cor- nell beyond the reach of law (374). Her...

... as politically conservative and anxious about propriety, privacy, and property while granting her the power to transgress and subvert these very conven- tions and restrictions. Joan Burbick, Washington State...

... advancements such as the automobile, superhighways, and assembly-line building techniques—has altered our understand- ing of space. Alongside the frontier rhetoric of an ever-­expanding American empire, the emphasis on privacy and private property ushered in a new, informal geography...