The strength of the book lies in the wealth of historical, literary, and pictorial examples that evoke the texture of domesticity, from bedchambers to bigamy. New Yorker 2006 Its central argument is wonderfully simple... McKeon will set new agendas in the understanding of the early modern to modern eras.
Brean S. Hammond Times Literary Supplement 2006 Those in the ... Read morefields of 17th- and 18th-century cultural studies will find this book fascinating. Choice 2006 The scholarship is breathtaking and the intellectual analysis rigorous.
Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 McKeon's scholarship is commanding, his erudition staggering, his systematic rigour and intellectual control steady and sure.
John Richetti Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2007 A gift to all teachers and scholars of the British novel.
Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley Christianity and Literature 2007 I have assigned this book to graduate students... Accounting for most of what has gone on in the last thirty years of scholarship in its dynamic synthesis, The Secret History of Domesticity lays the groundwork for new inquiry into eighteenth-century life. As a reader, as a scholar, and as a teacher, I am grateful for it.
Erin Mackie Eighteenth-Century Life 2009 Show Less