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Author Nelson, Deborah

Title Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages)
Series Gender and Culture Series
Gender and culture.
Contents Introduction: The Death of Privacy; Acknowledgments; 1. Reinventing Privacy; 2. "Thirsting for the Hierarchic Privacy of Queen Victoria's Century": Robert Lowell and the Transformation of Privacy; 3. Penetrating Privacy: Confessional Poetry, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Containment Ideology; 4. Confessions Between a Woman and Her Doctor: Roe v. Wade and the Gender of Privacy; 5. Confessing the Ordinary: Paul Monette's Love Alone and Bowers v. Hardwick, An Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary 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
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Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Privacy in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Privacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Autobiography in literature.
Confession in literature.
Cold War in literature.
Self in literature.
American poetry
Autobiography in literature
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
Confession in literature
Literature and society
Privacy
Privacy in literature
Privacy, Right of
Self in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231528696
0231528698