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SILENCE
A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
With precision and grace, award-winning author Jane Brox examines the institution of silence from monastic communion with God to the punitive silencing of inmates.
In twelfth-century Provence, Cistercian monks took vows of silence for stillness and more profound meditation. This monastic tradition, along with European concepts of prison reform and the American Enlightenment, gave 19th- century social reformers high hopes for the capacity of silence to redeem and rehabilitate in a new system of incarceration. THE WAKE OF SILENCE explores the power of silence and our often fraught relationship with communication and solitude, and how this heritage has led us into an age in which quiet is increasingly difficult to come by.
Jane Brox’s titles include BRILLIANT: The Evolution of Artificial Light (a Time Magazine top ten nonfiction book of 2010); CLEARING LAND: Legacies of the American Farm (in 2004 a Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution); and FIVE THOUSAND DAYS LIKE THIS ONE, (a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction). She has been awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Published 2019-01-01 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |