Inexpressible Privacy The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature Milette Shamir "Shamir dismantles the link that has been forged by cultural historians and literary critics between domesticity and privacy."--American Historical Review "Shamir contributes centrally to historicist studies of feminine and masculine subjectivity and the unevenly gender-freighted practices of privacy and intimacy. The book will be noted for the large sweep of its argument about the creation of masculine privacy, as well as for the small details of its readings. Cogently argued, immediately relevant...