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'I Hope I Don't Intrude': Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain
David Vincent
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Description for 'I Hope I Don't Intrude': Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Hardcover. Taking his title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, a huge success in London, New York, and around the English-speaking world, David Vincent explores the worlds of privacy and celebrity in nineteenth-century Britain, examining debates about mass communication and state surveillance that link to today's concerns. Num Pages: 368 pages, 36 black and white figures/illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 674.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198725039
SKU
V9780198725039
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About David Vincent
David Vincent studied at the Universities of York and Cambridge, before joining Keele University as a lecturer in history in 1974. He left as Professor of Social History and Deputy Vice Chancellor in 2003, and became Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Strategy and External Affairs at The Open University, which he carried out from 2003 to 2010, when he became Professor of Social ... Read more
Reviews for 'I Hope I Don't Intrude': Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In its analysis of popular theatre, print culture, and satire this is an impressive volume.
Antony Taylor, Neue Politische Literatur
[A] fascinating double-history of nineteenth-century privacy and popular drama ... Meticulously researched and eloquently written ... Vincent's spirited curiosity and vigorous research into the extraordinarily buoyant, mottled afterlife of Pry signals his own full respect for the subject ... Read more
Antony Taylor, Neue Politische Literatur
[A] fascinating double-history of nineteenth-century privacy and popular drama ... Meticulously researched and eloquently written ... Vincent's spirited curiosity and vigorous research into the extraordinarily buoyant, mottled afterlife of Pry signals his own full respect for the subject ... Read more