Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.
Contents
Divided plots: gender symmetry and the architecture of domestic space -- Dream houses: divided interiority in three antebellum short stories -- The master's house divided: exposure and concealment in narratives of slavery -- Hawthorne's romance and the right to privacy --Thoreau in suburbia: Walden and the liberal myth of private manhood -- "The manliest relations to men": Thoreau on privacy, intimacy, and writing.
