| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 209 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Gender and culture
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Gender and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Reinventing privacy -- "Thirsting for the hieracrchic privacy of Queen Victoria's century: Robert Lowell and the transformations of privacy -- Penetrating privacy: confessional poetry, Griswold v. Connecticut, and containment ideology -- Confessions between a woman and her doctor: Roe v. Wade and the gender of privacy -- Confessing the ordinary: Paul Monette's Love alone and Bowers v. Hardwick--an epilogue. |
| 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 ""dea. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Privacy in literature.
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Privacy in literature. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Privacy, Right of. |
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Privacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Privacy. |
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Autobiography in literature.
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Autobiography in literature. |
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Confession in literature.
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Confession in literature. |
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Cold War in literature.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nelson, Deborah, 1962- Pursuing privacy in Cold War America. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002 0231111207 (DLC) 2001037260 (OCoLC)47216905 |
| ISBN |
0231505884 (electronic book) |
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9780231505888 (electronic book) |
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