Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England

Paula R. Backscheider, Timothy Dystal

• Completing the Union - critical Ennui, the politics of narrative, and the reformation of Irish cultural identity, Mitzi Myers; as easy as a chimney pot to blacken - Catharine Macaulay the celebrated female historian, Cecile Mazzucco-Than; publicizing private history - Mary Carleton's case in court and in print, Mary Jo Jietzman; eroticizing the subject, or royals in drag - reading the memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, Donna Landry; Swift's sermons, public conscience and the privatization of religion, Roger D. Lund; the construction of the public interest in the debates over Fox's India bills, Susan Staves; William Godwin and the pathological public sphere - theorizing communicative action in the 1790s, Andrew McCann; public loathing, private thoughts - historical representation in Helen Maria Williams' Letters from France, Jack Fruchtman Jr; vices, benefits and civil society - Mandevill, Habermas and the distinction between public and private, Gordon Schochet.