Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America

by Deborah Nelson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231111207
• ISBN13: 9780231111201
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher