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04171aam a2200469 i 4500 001 9006D080664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 220428s2023 paua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022016258 020 $a 1512823511 020 $a 9781512823516 035 $a (OCoLC)1344103005 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d MAH $d TFW $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.P647 $b M87 2023 082 00 $a 813/.309353 $2 23/eng/20221017 100 1 $a Murison, Justine S., $e author. 245 10 $a Faith in exposure : $b privacy and secularism in the nineteenth-century United States / $c Justine S. Murison. 264 1 $a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 266 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Early American studies 520 $a "Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are united, though, by the fact that both are rooted in our culture's understanding of privacy. This book shows how, over the course of the nineteenth century, privacy came to encompass such contradictions-both underpinning the right to sexual and reproductive rights but also undermining them in the name of religious freedom. Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of secular studies, this book brings a postsecular orientation to the historical emergence of modern privacy. The book explains this emergence through two interlocking stories. The first examines the legal and cultural connection of religion with the private sphere, showing how privacy became a moral concept that informs how we debate the right to be shielded from state interference, as well as who will be afforded or denied this protection. This conflation of religion with privacy gave rise, the book argues, to a "secular sensibility" that was especially invested in authenticity and the exposure of hypocrisy in others. The second story examines the development of this "secular sensibility" of privacy through nineteenth-century novels. The preoccupation of the novel form with private life, and especially its dependence on revelations of private desire and sexual secrets, made it the perfect vehicle for suggesting that exposure might be synonymous with morality itself. Each chapter places key authors into wider contexts of popular fiction and periodical press debates. From fears over religious infidelity to controversies over what constituted a modern marriage and conspiracy theories about abolitionists, these were the contests that helped privacy emerge as both a sensibility and a right in modern, secular America"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS $t CONTENTS -- $t INTRODUCTION Our Faith in Exposure -- $t CHAPTER 1 Infidelity -- $t CHAPTER 2 Matrimony -- $t CHAPTER 3 Nudity -- $t CHAPTER 4 Conspiracy -- $t CHAPTER 5 Hypocrisy -- $t CHAPTER 6 Secrecy -- $t EPILOGUE The Ends of Privacy -- $t NOTES -- $t INDEX -- $t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Privacy $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Secularism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Freedom of religion $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Privacy in literature. 650 0 $a Secularism in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Privacy, Right of $x Moral and ethical aspects. 650 7 $a Privacy in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077443 650 7 $a Privacy, Right of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077444 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Murison, Justine S. $t Faith in exposure. $d Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] $z 9781512823523 $w (OCoLC)1334104754 830 0 $a Early American studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012342.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9006D080664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search