Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood-what constitutes a self-have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments possible. In a society increasingly dominated by interlocking surveillance systems, these habits of mind are consequently necessary for fully realized liberal citizenship.
- ISBN10 0300155417
- ISBN13 9780300155419
- Publish Date 16 July 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300155419