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Author:

Adams, Katherine, 1964-

Title:

Owning up : privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing / Katherine Adams.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography--Women authors
Women authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Privacy in literature
Privacy--Philosophy.
Privacy--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Imperiled privacy -- Tarnished icons, shining lives : Fuller's publication of privacy -- Stowe's truths : privacy, privation, and the mob -- Freedom and ballgowns : Elizabeth Keckley's executive domesticity -- The cost of self in two Alcott utopias.

ISBN:

0195336801 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195336801 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259970282

LCCN:

2008041036

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)