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Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an ideology of privacy that defined subjects in terms of their intentions and desires. She reveals how writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Henry James depicted a world in which characters could only be understood—and, more importantly, could only understand themselves—through their public actions. She argues that the social issues that nineteenth-cen
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- Author
- Stacey Margolis; Donald E. Pease
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822386674
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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