Silence : a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / Jane Brox.
Brox, Jane, 1956- author.
2019
BJ1499.S5 B76 2019eb
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Title Silence : a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / Jane Brox.
Author Brox, Jane, 1956- author.
ISBN 9780544702516 (electronic book)
0544702514 (electronic book)
9780544702486
Published Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Call Number BJ1499.S5 B76 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 302/.1
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
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Part I. Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829: Experiment in Silence
Man of Sorrows
Benjamin Rush's Vision
Good by Discipline
John Haviland's Star of Solitudes
Part II. The Monastic World: A History of Silence
In Proportion
Speech and Silence
Thomas Merton: Silence and the World
Measures of Time
The Voices of the Pages
The Great Silence
Part III. Philadelphia: Darkening the Dark
Night in Stone
"I get up and hammer my leather."
Punishment Within Punishment
So that it "may uplift ..."
Time Again
Part IV. The Silence of Women
Silencing Silence
"Or perhaps women ..."
Monastic Women: More Shadow Than Light
Part V. The Ends of Silence
Thomas Merton: Questioning Silence
The Monastic World: What Remains
The Prison Cell in Our Time
Intervals of Silence
Coda
In Ruins.

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