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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
Deborah Nelson
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Description for Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
Paperback. Explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. This book explores the panic over the 'death of privacy' aroused by changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, and the popularity of psychoanalysis. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 363.
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad ... Read more
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231111218
SKU
V9780231111218
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About Deborah Nelson
Deborah Nelson is assistant professor of English and gender studies at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
[Nelson's] approach is often provocative and her research exhaustive. Choice Rethinks confessional poetry in liberating ways... rich insights. Modernism/ Modernity Nelson cogently details the emergence of women's privacy as an act of confession and examines confessional poets such as Plath and Sexton, whose personal self-disclosures anticipate the Supreme Court's emerging interpretation of prviacy as no longer available in silence.
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