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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. This book explores the panic over the 'death of privacy' aroused by changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, and the popularity of psychoanalysis.
Trade Review[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
Table of ContentsPreface: The Death of Privacy Part II: Sovereign Domains Part I: The Sudden Visibility of Privacy Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 "Thirsting for the Hierarchic Privacy of Queen Victoria's Century": Robert Lowell and the Transformations of Privacy Chapter 3 Penetrating Privacy: Confessional Poetry, Griswold v. Connecticut , and Containment Ideology Chapter 4 Confessions Between a Woman and Her Doctor: Roe v. Wade and the Gender of Privacy Chapter 5 Confessing the Ordinary: Bowers v. Hardwick and Paul Monette's Love Alone - An Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
