What can fiction tell us about privacy? Thirty years ago, in The Novel and the Police (1988), D. A. Miller suggested that we can intuit the privacy of literary characters as “an integral, autonomous, ‘secret’ self,” one “whose ultimate meaning lies in the subject’s formal insistence that he is radically inaccessible to the culture that would otherwise entirely determine him” (162, 195). In this essay, I propose a shift away from thinking about privacy, in fiction and the world, as concerned with an individual’s interior, toward thinking about it as something that inheres in interpersonal and group interactions. This view of privacy becomes especially visible as both a formal feature and a thematic concern in recent novels that take up WikiLeaks as a topic, novels that try to square the competing ideals of governmental transparency and individual privacy. By attending to the ways that two contemporary novelists describe information flow between characters, we can grasp privacy as a facet of our social and information networks. A rich thread in literary scholarship shows how the history of privacy reflects a history of the liberal self, arguably starting with Miller’s influential study. More recently, David Rosen and Aaron Santesso have traced the intellectual history of modern privacy to nineteenth-century romantic and liberal conceptions of the self, particularly in the writings of William Wordsworth and John Stuart Mill that influenced Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s landmark 1890 essay on privacy as the domain of an “inviolate personality,” a curiously self-contained notion of the self (Rosen and Santesso 115– 17). As Lauren Berlant, Deborah Nelson, and Simone Browne have shown, debates about privacy are also highly politicized arguments

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小说和维基解密：透明度和隐私的社会生活

关于隐私，小说可以告诉我们什么？三十年前，在《小说与警察》（1988）中，达米勒建议我们可以将文学人物的隐私直觉理解为“一个完整的、自主的、‘秘密’的自我”，“其最终意义在于主体的形式坚持他根本无法接触到完全决定他的文化”（162, 195）。在这篇文章中，我建议将小说和世界中的隐私视为关注个人的内在，转向将其视为人际和群体互动中固有的东西。在最近以维基解密为主题的小说中，这种隐私观作为正式特征和主题问题变得尤为明显，试图与政府透明度和个人隐私的竞争理想相匹配的小说。通过关注两位当代小说家描述人物之间信息流的方式，我们可以将隐私视为我们社交和信息网络的一个方面。文学学术的丰富线索表明隐私历史如何反映自由主义自我的历史，可以说是从米勒有影响力的研究开始。最近，大卫·罗森 (David Rosen) 和亚伦·桑特索 (Aaron Santesso) 将现代隐私的思想史追溯到 19 世纪浪漫主义和自由主义的自我概念，特别是在威廉·华兹华斯 (William Wordsworth) 和约翰·斯图尔特·米尔 (John Stuart Mill) 的著作中，这些著作影响了塞缪尔·沃伦 (Samuel Warren) 和路易斯·布兰戴斯 (Louis Brandeis) 1890 年关于隐私作为“不受侵犯的人格，”一种奇怪的自足的自我概念（Rosen and Santesso 115-17）。正如 Lauren Berlant、Deborah Nelson 和 Simone Browne 所表明的那样，关于隐私的辩论也是高度政治化的论点