The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Director's Circle Book)
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...
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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 prehistory along with that of its essential component, domesticity.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801885402 (080188540X)
Publish date: December 6th 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 904
Edition language: English
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