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

Winner, Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Communication and Cultural Studies

Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public—private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre—history along with that of its essential component, domes...