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. -- 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»
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. Les mer
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. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231111201
- Utgivelsesår
- 2001
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«[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. -- 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»