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History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance

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ISBN-10: 067440002X

ISBN-13: 9780674400023

Edition: 1989

Authors: Roger Chartier, Arthur Goldhammer, Phillippe Ari�s, Georges Duby

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An examination of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This volume celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries.
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Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Introduction
Figures of Modernity
Introduction by Roger Chartier Politics and Private Life
The Two Reformations: Communal Devotion and Personal Piety
The Practical Impact of Writing
Forms of Privatization
Introduction
The Uses of Civility
The Refuges of Intimacy Distinction through Taste
The Child: From Anonymity to Individuality
The Literature of Intimacy Literary Practices: Publicizing the Private
Community, State, and Family: Trajectories and Tensions
Introduction
The Public and the Private
Friends and Neighbors Families: Habitations and Cohabitations
Families: Privacy versus Custom
The Honor and Secrecy of Families
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index