Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Division of Knowledge -- The Public and the Private -- Domesticity -- Form and Spatial Representability -- Questions of Method -- Part One: The Age of Separations -- Chapter 1. The Devolution of Absolutism -- State and Civil Society -- From Tacit to Explicit -- Polis and Oikos -- The State and the Family -- Absolute Private Property -- Interest and the Public Interest -- Civic Humanism or Capitalist Ideology? -- From the Marketplace to the Market -- The Protestant Separation -- Conscientious Privacy and the Closet of Devotion -- What Is the Public Sphere? -- Chapter 2. Publishing the Private -- The Plasticity of Print -- Scribal Publication -- Print, Property, and the Public Interest -- Print Legislation and Copyright -- Knowledge and Secrecy -- Public Opinion -- What Was the Public Sphere? -- Publicness through Virtuality -- Publication and Personality -- Anonymity and Responsibility -- Libel versus Satire -- Characters, Authors, Readers -- Particulars and Generals -- Actual and Concrete Particularity -- Chapter 3. From State as Family to Family as State -- State as Family -- Family as State -- Coming Together -- Being Together -- Putting Asunder -- Tory Feminism and the Devolution of Absolutism -- Privacy and Pastoral -- Chapter 4. Outside and Inside Work -- The Domestic Economy and Cottage Industry -- The Economic Basis of Separate Spheres -- Housewife as Governor -- The Whore's Labor -- The Whores Rhetorick -- Chapter 5. Subdividing Inside Spaces -- Separating Out "Science" -- The Royal Household -- Cabinet and Closet -- Secrets and the Secretary -- Noble and Gentle Households -- The Curtain Lecture -- Households of the Middling Sort -- Where the Poor Should Live -- Chapter 6. Sex and Book Sex -- Sex -- Aristotle's Master-piece -- Onania -- Book Sex.

Protopornography: Sex and Religion -- Protopornography: Sex and Politics -- The Law of Obscene Libel -- Part Two: Domestication as Form -- Chapter 7. Motives for Domestication -- The Productivity of the Division of Knowledge -- Domestication as Hermeneutics -- Domestication as Pedagogy -- Disembedding Epistemology from Social Status -- Scientific Disinterestedness -- Civic Disinterestedness -- Aesthetic Disinterestedness -- Chapter 8. Mixed Genres -- Tragicomedy -- Romance -- Mock Epic -- Pastoral -- Christ in the House of Martha and Mary -- Chapter 9. Figures of Domestication -- Narrative Concentration -- Narrative Concretization -- Part Three: Secret Histories -- Chapter 10. The Narration of Public Crisis -- What Is a Secret History? -- Sidney and Barclay -- Opening the King's Cabinet -- Opening the Queen's Closet -- Scudéry -- Women and Romance -- The King Out of Power -- The King In Power -- The Secret of the Black Box -- The Secret of The Holy War -- Chapter 11. Behn's Love-Letters -- Love versus War? -- Love versus Friendship -- Fathers versus Children -- Effeminacy and the Public Wife -- Gender without Sex -- From Epistolary to Third Person -- From Female Duplicity to Female Interiority -- Love-Letters and Pornography -- Chapter 12. Toward the Narration of Private Life -- The Secret of the Warming Pan -- The Private Lives of William, Mary, and Anne -- The Privatization of the Secret History -- The Strange Case of Beau Wilson -- Chapter 13. Secret History as Autobiography -- Preface on Congreve -- Manley's New Atalantis -- Manley's Rivella -- Postscript on Pope -- Chapter 14. Secret History as Novel -- Defoe and Swift -- Jane Barker and Mary Hearne -- Haywood's Secret Histories -- Richardson's Pamela -- Chapter 15. Variations on the Domestic Novel -- Fanny Hill -- Tristram Shandy -- Humphry Clinker -- Pride and Prejudice -- Notes -- Index -- A.

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