The Repeal of Reticence, Free Speech & Culture, Rochelle Gurstein 1st 1996 HC

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“Lovely 1st Edition. Hill & Wang, 1996. Text clean, unmarked. Hard Cover. Stored and protected in a ...
Type
History Book, Legal Studies Book, Cultural Studies Book, Social S
Vintage
Yes
Era
19th Century, 1800s, 20th Century, 1900s, 1960s, Contemporary
Features
hardcover, first edition, mylar protected, dust jacket
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Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Personalized
No
Edition
First Edition
Signed
No
Intended Audience
Adults
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Inscribed
No
Original Language
English
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No
Literary Movement
Modern Non-Fiction, Cultural Analysis, Legal History, Social Comm
Ex Libris
No
ISBN
9780809080694
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0809080699
ISBN-13
9780809080694
eBay Product ID (ePID)
558982

Product Key Features

Book Title
Repeal of Reticence
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
Civil Rights, General
Genre
Law, Political Science
Author
Rochelle Gurstein
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
210.8 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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LCCN
95-047259
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
323.44/3/0973
Synopsis
This striking study of America's battles over what we can decently say and do in public traces how and why principled debate about the character of our common world has been displaced by a new kind of public noise. Rochelle Gurstein offers a brilliant history of the arguments made for and against the forces - invasive journalism, realist fiction, and sex reform - that altered public discourse between the late nineteenth century, when they first appeared, and the 1960s, when new controversies erupted about mass culture, avant-garde art, and sexual liberation. Now the public sphere is dominated by rights talk, by puritan-baiting, and by knee-jerk liberalism or illiberalism. Is this the best we can do? Gurstein gives a detailed account of how the party of exposure successfully opened American public life to matters that had once been hidden away in private, and studies the unexpected consequences of that victory. And she retrieves a way of thinking, wrongly discredited as Victorian, that could in fact move us beyond our stalemates over what should and what should not be said or done in public. Once, Americans influenced by the party of reticence held that if personal matters were exposed to public scrutiny they risked becoming trivial or obscene; they thought that any indiscriminate display of private matters deformed standards of taste and judgment, lowered the tone of public conversation, and polluted public space. Ms. Gurstein's penetrating analysis suggests that we must reconsider these positions, and she establishes the vital connection between our legal-cultural history and current debates about obscenity, privacy, and issues of public decency.
LC Classification Number
JC599.U5G87 1996

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