Overview
This collection of essays, written by specialists in their fields, examines and challenges the notion that there was a clear distinction between the emerging public sphere, which mediated between the State and individuals and provided a forum for Enlightenment debates, and the private, intimate or familial sphere. The essays focus on political, legal, historiographic, literary and gender issues in an attempt to create a more subtle and differentiated view of how men and women established and understood various ""public"" and ""private"" domains, and used the languages of public and private actions and sentiments.
Full Product Details
Author: Dario Castiglione ,
Lesley Sharpe
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: University of Exeter Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9780859894449
ISBN 10: 0859894444
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 01 October 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
... a stimulating set of interdisciplinary essays concerned to trace the evolution of the private sphere in eighteenth-century Europe. This carefully organized and scholarly collection can justifiably claim to have tested out the usefulness of the public/private distinction in a variety of new ways: the result is a thought-provoking read which will contain something of interest to most scholars of the eighteenth century.
... a stimulating set of interdisciplinary essays concerned to trace the evolution of the private sphere in eighteenth-century Europe. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 57 1995 This carefully organized and scholarly collection can justifiably claim to have tested out the usefulness of the public/private distinction in a variety of new ways: the result is a thought-provoking read which will contain something of interest to most scholars of the eighteenth century. Journal of European Studies
... a stimulating set of interdisciplinary essays concerned to trace the evolution of the private sphere in eighteenth-century Europe. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 57 This carefully organized and scholarly collection can justifiably claim to have tested out the usefulness of the public/private distinction in a variety of new ways: the result is a thought-provoking read which will contain something of interest to most scholars of the eighteenth century. Journal of European Studies
This carefully organized and scholarly collection can justifiably claim to have tested out the usefulness of the public/private distinction in a variety of new ways: the result is a thought-provoking read which will contain something of interest to most scholars of the eighteenth century. -Journal of European Studies
Author Information
DARIO CASTIGLIONE is Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Exeter. LESLEY SHARPE is Senior Lecturer in German, University of Exeter. Lesley Sharpe studied for her MA and Dphil at Oxford. She also spent time as a postdoctoral Hanseatic Fellow at the University of Hamburg. She taught for many years at the University of Exeter and was then appointed to the Chair of German at the University of Bristol. She returned to Exeter in 2003 to a new Chair of German. From 1994 to 2000 she was Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review. She has served on the Arts and Humanities Research Board research panel for Modern Languages and was a member of the German, Dutch and Scandinavian panel for the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. She is currently Chair of the national organization Women in German Studies.
