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We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here?

Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship between secrecy and openness--has changed over the last two centuries in Britain. Deborah Cohen uses detailed sketches of individual families as the basis for comparing different sorts of social stigma. She takes readers inside an Edinburgh town house, where a genteel maiden frets with...

What is literacy, how have the technologies of literacy evolved and with what results, and what are the consequences of literacy for the individual and society across time and space? This volume contains a collection of 19 essays discussing these concerns in literacy studies.

What is literacy, how have the technologies of literacy evolved and with what results, and what are the consequences of literacy for the individual and society across time and space? This volume contains a collection of 19 essays discussing these concerns in literacy studies.