04710nam 2200865 450 991077997230332120230120032522.00-231-52869-80-231-50588-410.7312/nels11120(CKB)111056485385906(EBL)983174(OCoLC)817928675(SSID)ssj0000230834(PQKBManifestationID)11173860(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230834(PQKBWorkID)10197663(PQKB)10356591(DE-B1597)459162(OCoLC)1013937921(OCoLC)979742070(DE-B1597)9780231505888(Au-PeEL)EBL983174(CaONFJC)MIL853672(Au-PeEL)EBL1159003(CaONFJC)MIL562534(OCoLC)833763885(MiAaPQ)EBC983174(MiAaPQ)EBC1159003(EXLCZ)9911105648538590620190119h20021893 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrPursuing privacy in Cold War America /Deborah NelsonNew York :Columbia University Press,2002.©18931 online resource (235 p.)Gender and Culture SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-11121-5 0-231-11120-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction:The Death of Privacy --Acknowledgments --One. Reinventing Privacy --Two. "Thirsting for the Hierarchic Privacy of Queen Victoria's Century" --Three. Penetrating Privacy --Four. Confessions Between a Woman and Her Doctor --Five. Confessing the Ordinary --Notes --Works Cited --IndexPursuing 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 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 McCarthyism.Examining this interchange between poetry and law at its most intense moments of reflection in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Deborah Nelson produces a rhetorical analysis of a privacy concept integral to postwar America's self-definition and to bedrock contradictions in Cold War ideology. 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.Gender and Culture SeriesAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismPrivacy in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPrivacy, Right ofUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPrivacyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAutobiography in literatureConfession in literatureCold War in literatureSelf in literatureAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Privacy in literature.Literature and societyHistoryPrivacy, Right ofHistoryPrivacyHistoryAutobiography in literature.Confession in literature.Cold War in literature.Self in literature.811.54080355Nelson Deborah1962-1556699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779972303321Pursuing privacy in Cold War America3819614UNINA