Inexpressible Privacy by Milette Shamir PAPERBACK 9780812220230

Inexpressible Privacy\nby Milette Shamir\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Milette Shamir\nTitle: Inexpressible Privacy\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: MT - University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2008\nISBN-13: 9780812220230\nISBN-10: 0812220234\nRRP: \u00A323.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFew concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of privacy. Milette Shamir traces the peculiarly American obsession with privacy back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when our modern understanding of the concept took hold.\n\nFew concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of privacy..