Just Words

WARNING

You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com

Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

Alan Ackerman
View Inside Format: Paper
Price: $42.00
YUP
Add to Cart Add to Cart

Please select your location:

Can not distribute to selected Country

 

Digital Products

One-Year, Individual Subscriptions

  • Use this form to buy individual subscriptions to HUP digital products.
  • Upon completion of your order, you will immediately receive an email confirmation.
  • Within 2–3 business days from the completion of your order, you will receive a follow-up email with account setup details for the digital product(s) you purchased.
  • To order a gift subscription, simply place a regular order using your own contact information. Once you receive the email with account setup details you can forward that message directly to the gift recipient, or share the information in whatever manner you prefer.
  • Orders will be billed by our distributor, Triliteral, LLC.
  • For billing inquiries, please contact Triliteral directly:

    Triliteral LLC, 100 Maple Ridge Drive, Cumberland, RI 02864, USA
    Tel: (800) 405-1619 | (401) 531-2800
    Fax: (800) 406-9145 | (401) 531-2801
    Email:

  • For inquiries about account access (after you have received your initial account setup email, or if you have not received such an email within 2–3 business days after completion of your order), please contact .
  • For information about institutional sales: daredictionary.com | loebclassics.com
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.

Also Available in:
Cloth
e-book

Description Reviews
 

In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.

Alan Ackerman is professor of English, University of Toronto. His books include Seeing Things, from Shakespeare to Pixar and The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage, and he is editor of the journal Modern Drama.
ISBN: 9780300191967
Publication Date: March 29, 2013
376 pages, 5 1/8 x 8
Also of Interest
 
American Beauty

Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion

Patricia Mears

View details
How Young Ladies Became Girls

The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood

Jane Hunter

View details
The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous

Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Ken Wells; With a New Preface

View details
Hellfire Nation

The Politics of Sin in American History

James A. Morone

View details
Subverting Exclusion

Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Andrea Geiger

View details