Shifting The Boundaries – Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private…

Shifting The BoundariesTransformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Exeter Press\nISBN-13: 9780859894449, 978-0859894449\nSynopsis\nA collection of essays, written by well-known specialists in their fields, which deal with the problematic and ever-shifting boundaries between the public and the private spheres in Western Europe in the eighteenth century. It examines and challenges the notion that there was a clear distinction between the emerging public sphere, which mediated between the State and individuals and provided a forum for Enlightenment debates, and the private, intimate or familial [url] essays focus on political, legal, historiographic, literary and gender issues in an attempt to create a more subtle and differentiated view of how men and women established and understood various 'public 'and 'priva.