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<p>Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title<br><br>Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than that of privacy. What these discussions have lacked, however, is a historically informed sense of privacy's genealogy in U.S. culture. Now, Milette Shamir traces this peculiarly American obsession back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of privacy took hold.<br><br>Shamir explo
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- Author
- Shamir, Milette
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812204247
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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