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Book Condition: Used Near Fine (see description)
Jacket condition: Near Fine (see description)
ISBN: 0198725035 / 9780198725039
Seller: Leonard Shoup

Canada
About Item: Oxford, England: Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press ( OUP ), 2015, 1st Edition, First Printing , 2015. ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) hardcover, a Near Fine example in a Near Fine dustjacket, 354 pages, b&w illustrations, ---"I Hope I Don't Intrude takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual… Read More
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