Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England

Paula R. Backscheider, Timothy Dystal

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Paula R. Backscheider; Chapter 2 Introduction, Timothy Dykstal; Chapter 3 “Completing the Union”: Critical Ennui, the Politics of Narrative, and the Reformation of Irish Cultural Identity, Mitzi Myers; Chapter 4 “As Easy as a Chimney Pot to Blacken”: Catharine Macaulay “the Celebrated Female Historian “, Cecile Mazzucco-Than; Chapter 5 Publicizing Private History: Mary Carleton’s Case in Court and in Print, Mary Jo Kietzman; Chapter 6 Eroticizing the Subject, or Royals in Drag: Reading the Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, Donna Landry; Chapter 7 Swift’s Sermons, “Public Conscience,” and the Privatization of Religion, Roger D. Lund; Chapter 8 The Construction of the Public Interest in the Debates over Fox’s India Bill, Susan Staves; Chapter 9 William Godwin and the Pathological Public Sphere: Theorizing Communicative Action in the 1790s, Andrew McCann; Chapter 10 Public Loathing, Private Thoughts: Historical Representation in Helen Maria Williams ’ Letters from France, Jack Fruchtman; Chapter 11 Vices, Benefits, and Civil Society: Mandeville, Habermas, and the Distinction between Public and Private, Gordon Schochet;