Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita

Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita /

"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them...

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Main Author: Ladenson, Elisabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
1800 - 1999
Geschichte 1750-1950.
French literature > 19th century > Censorship.
English fiction > 20th century > Censorship.
American fiction > 20th century > Censorship.
Trials (Obscenity) > France > History > 19th century.
Trials (Obscenity) > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Trials (Obscenity) > United States > History > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
French literature > Censorship
Trials (Obscenity)
Literatur
Obszönität
Prozess
Romans.
Films.
Schandalen.
Censuur.
Processen (rechtspraak)
France
Great Britain
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue : History repeats itself
  • ch. 1. Gustave Flaubert : Emma Bovary goes to Hollywood
  • ch. 2. Charles Baudelaire : florist of evil
  • ch. 3. James Joyce : Leopold Bloom's trip to the outhouse
  • ch. 4. Radclyffe Hall : the well of prussic acid
  • ch. 5. D.H. Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins
  • ch. 6. Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of art
  • ch. 7. Vladimir Nabokov : Lolitigation
  • Epilogue : The return of the repressed
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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