The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge Book

List of Illustrations     xi
Acknowledgments     xv
Introduction     xvii
The Division of Knowledge     xvii
The Public and the Private     xix
Domesticity     xx
Form and Spatial Representability     xxi
Questions of Method     xxiii
The Age of Separations
The Devolution of Absolutism     3
State and Civil Society     3
From Tacit to Explicit     5
Polis and Oikos     7
The State and the Family     11
Absolute Private Property     16
Interest and the Public Interest     18
Civic Humanism or Capitalist Ideology?     24
From the Marketplace to the Market     26
The Protestant Separation     33
Conscientious Privacy and the Closet of Devotion     39
What Is the Public Sphere?     43
Publishing the Private     49
The Plasticity of Print     49
Scribal Publication     55
Print, Property, and the Public Interest     56
Print Legislation and Copyright     60
Knowledge and Secrecy     64
Public Opinion     67
What Was the Public Sphere?     70
Publicness through Virtuality     76
Publication and Personality     83
Anonymity and Responsibility     88
Libel versus Satire     95
Characters, Authors, Readers     99
Particulars and Generals     106
Actual and Concrete Particularity     108
From State as Family to Family as State     110
State as Family     112
Family as State     120
Coming Together     122
Being Together     134
Putting Asunder     143
Tory Feminism and the Devolution of Absolutism     147
Privacy and Pastoral     156
Outside and Inside Work     162
The Domestic Economy and Cottage Industry     170
The Economic Basis of Separate Spheres     177
Housewife as Governor     181
The Whore's Labor     194
The Whores Rhetorick     205
Subdividing Inside Spaces     212
Separating Out "Science"     212
The Royal Household     219
Cabinet and Closet     225
Secrets and the Secretary     228
Noble and Gentle Households     232
The Curtain Lecture      242
Households of the Middling Sort     252
Where the Poor Should Live     259
Sex and Book Sex     269
Sex     272
Aristotle's Master-piece     277
Onania     285
Book Sex     294
Protopornography: Sex and Religion     301
Protopornography: Sex and Politics     303
The Law of Obscene Libel     312
Domestication as Form
Motives for Domestication     323
The Productivity of the Division of Knowledge     323
Domestication as Hermeneutics     327
Domestication as Pedagogy     337
Disembedding Epistemology from Social Status     342
Scientific Disinterestedness     347
Civic Disinterestedness     353
Aesthetic Disinterestedness     357
Mixed Genres     388
Tragicomedy     389
Romance     394
Mock Epic     400
Pastoral     414
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary     423
Figures of Domestication     436
Narrative Concentration     437
Narrative Concretization     447
Secret Histories
The Narration of Public Crisis      469
What Is a Secret History?     469
Sidney and Barclay     473
Opening the King's Cabinet     482
Opening the Queen's Closet     486
Scudery     487
Women and Romance     491
The King Out of Power     492
The King In Power     494
The Secret of the Black Box     499
The Secret of The Holy War     503
Behn's Love-Letters     506
Love versus War?     507
Love versus Friendship     513
Fathers versus Children     517
Effeminacy and the Public Wife     519
Gender without Sex     524
From Epistolary to Third Person     530
From Female Duplicity to Female Interiority     536
Love-Letters and Pornography     540
Toward the Narration of Private Life     547
The Secret of the Warming Pan     549
The Private Lives of William, Mary, and Anne     557
The Privatization of the Secret History     565
The Strange Case of Beau Wilson     569
Secret History as Autobiography     588
Preface on Congreve     588
Manley's New Atalantis     589
Manley's Rivella      598
Postscript on Pope     615
Secret History as Novel     621
Defoe and Swift     623
Jane Barker and Mary Hearne     627
Haywood's Secret Histories     631
Richardson's Pamela     639
Variations on the Domestic Novel     660
Fanny Hill     660
Tristram Shandy     672
Humphry Clinker     680
Pride and Prejudice     692
Notes     719
Index     841