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The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate. The collection looks at the varied ways this persistent model of human thought has been formulated, and applies, tests, refines and contests the paradigm. Some of the essays endorse Habermas' view of the concept, some reject it, and some explain the public/private division completely differently. The essays reconsider the usefulness of the model and offer revisionary interpretations of many texts and of their contribution to modern thought and institution.
The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate. The collection looks at the varied ways this persistent model of human thought has been formulated, and applies, tests, refines and contests the paradigm. Some of the essays endorse Habermas' view of the concept, some reject it, and some explain the public/private division completely differently. The essays reconsider the usefulness of the model and offer revisionary interpretations of many texts and of their contribution to modern thought and institution.
Completing the Union - critical Ennui, the politics of narrative, and the reformation of Irish cultural identity, Mitzi Myers; as easy as a chimney pot to blacken - Catharine Macaulay the celebrated female historian, Cecile Mazzucco-Than; publicizing private history - Mary Carleton's case in court and in print, Mary Jo Jietzman; eroticizing the subject, or royals in drag - reading the memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, Donna Landry; Swift's sermons, public conscience and the privatization of religion, Roger D. Lund; the construction of the public interest in the debates over Fox's India bills, Susan Staves; William Godwin and the pathological public sphere - theorizing communicative action in the 1790s, Andrew McCann; public loathing, private thoughts - historical representation in Helen Maria Williams' Letters from France, Jack Fruchtman Jr; vices, benefits and civil society - Mandevill, Habermas and the distinction between public and private, Gordon Schochet.
Paula R. Backscheider, Timothy Dystal
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