Michael McKeon The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge
Johns Hopkins University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 080188540X | 904 pages | PDF | 16,3 MB
Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity.
A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.