Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America (Gender and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231111215 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Close reading of the poetry alongside the Supreme Court's shifting definitions of privacy in landmark decisions reveals a broader and deeper cultural metaphor at work.. Nelson argues that the desire to stabilize privacy in a constitutional right and the movement toward confession in postwar American poetry were not simply manifestations of the anxiety about privacy. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. 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. D. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, the popularity of psychoanalysis, the arrival of computer databases, and the spectacles of confession associated with
(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. (Shelly Eversley American Literature)Refusing to simplify, she produces what might well be one of the most intellectually challenging and provactive views of lyric poetry in the postwar years (Edward Brunner Contemporary Literature) . Nelson's approach is often provocative and her research exhaustive. (Choice)Rethinks confessional poetry in liberating ways rich insights
"Groundbreaking work" according to A Customer. I'm a lawyer, not a literary critic, and this is one of the best, if not the best, account of constitutional privacy doctrine in its historical context there is. I also found the cultural history and the literary readings illuminating. The writing is clear and jargon-free, too.
Deborah Nelson is assistant professor of English and gender studies at the University of Chicago.