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Author Brox, Jane, 1956- author.

Title Silence : a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / Jane Brox.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  302.1 BROX    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  302.1 BRO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  302.1 BROX    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  302.1 BRO    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  302.1 BRO    Check Shelf
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Description 310 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and index.
Summary Offers a history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind, specifically in Eastern State Penitentiary and the monastic world of Medieval Europe.
Contents 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.
Subject Silence -- History.
Silence -- Social aspects.
Monasticism and religious orders -- History.
Pennsylvania -- Prisons -- History.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Silence. (OCoLC)fst01118516
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Brox, Jane, 1956- Silence. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 9780544702516 (DLC) 2018029261
ISBN 9780544702486 (hardcover)
0544702484 (hardcover)
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