Modernism and the law /

"Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's lover, Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness, and James Joyce's Ulysses-[this book surve...

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Main Authors: Spoo, Robert E
Published: Bloomsbury Academic,
Publisher Address: London, UK :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: New modernisms series
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Summary: "Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's lover, Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness, and James Joyce's Ulysses-[this book surveys] the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. [The] book covers such topics as: obscenity laws and censorship; copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain; patronage and literary piracy; and privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail."--
Carrier Form: ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [170]-184) and index.
ISBN: 9781474275804
147427580X
9781474275811
1474275818
Index Number: K487
CLC: D914.3
D913.4
D912.16
Call Number: D912.16/S764
Contents: Oscar Wilde, man of law -- Obscenity and censorship -- Copyright, patronage, and courtesy -- Privacy, publicity, defamation, and blackmail -- Ezra Pound, man of war.