Pursuing privacy in Cold War America

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Pursuing privacy in Cold War America

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Nelson

Creator

• Nelson, Deborah, 1962-

Subject

• American poetry
• American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Autobiography in literature
• Autobiography in literature
• Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
• Cold War in literature
• Confession in literature
• Confession in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• History
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
• Literature and society
• Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• POETRY -- American | General
• Privacy
• Privacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Privacy in literature
• Privacy in literature
• Privacy, Right of
• Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Self in literature
• Self in literature
• United States
• 1900-1999

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Gender and culture

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N$T

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Gender and culture