@article{1444194,
      recid = {1444194},
      author = {Beardsworth, Adam,},
      title = {Confessional poetry in the Cold War : the poetics of  doublespeak /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and  1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that  used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist  infiltration as affective tools for the management of  public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned  repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell,  John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall  Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a  politically benign confessional style. Although  confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing  private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their  work in relation to the political and affective environment  of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to  express dissent while averting surveillance. For these  poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bombs  shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the  impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming  names. Adam Beardsworth is a professor of English at  Memorial Universitys Grenfell Campus, Canada, where he  teaches contemporary literature and critical theory. He is  the author of numerous articles and chapters on US and  Canadian poetry and is a past-president of the Canadian  Association for American Studies. He lives in Steady Brook,  Newfoundland.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1444194},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93115-5},
}