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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
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[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 )Review
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America is an elegant and ambitious book. Nelson zeroes in on a term -- privacy -- that produces a great deal of anxiety in Americans. Her examples are fascinating, her scholarship impressive, and her argument compelling.
(Diane Middlebrook, Stanford University and author of Anne Sexton: A Biography )
08/07/2003
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