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Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita / Elisabeth Ladenson.
Author
Ladenson, Elisabeth
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 272 pages)
Availability
Available Online
JSTOR DDA
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
Details
Subject(s)
French literature
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19th century
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Censorship
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English fiction
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20th century
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Censorship
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American fiction
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20th century
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Censorship
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Trials (Obscenity)
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France
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History
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19th century
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Trials (Obscenity)
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Great Britain
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History
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20th century
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Trials (Obscenity)
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
"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 as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces? Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she considers, along the way, Les Fleurs du Mal, Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Lolita, and the works of the Marquis de Sade. Written with a keen awareness of ongoing debates about free speech, Dirt for Art's Sake traces the legal and social acceptance of controversial works with critical acumen and delightful wit."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
English.
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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ISBN
9780801460371 ((electronic bk.))
0801460379 ((electronic bk.))
0801466415
9780801466410
OCLC
608174669
Doi
10.7591/9780801460371
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Dirt for art's sake [electronic resource] : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita / Elisabeth Ladenson.
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