Pursuing privacy in Cold War America
By: Deborah Nelson.
Series: Gender and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: 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.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.