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The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Stacey Margolis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.235 pp. $74.95/$21.95 paper.

In this exemplary work, Stacey Margolis critically redefines the boundaries of public and private life in nineteenth-century American fiction and culture. Margolis's well-structured examination rethinks the ideology privileging privacy and the "exploration of interiority" in American literature (3). She bases her understanding of American identity formation on the exterior constructions and public actions of several characters in a variety of novels. According to Margolis, these characters "can only be understood-can only understand ...

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