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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Bloomsbury Academic,
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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. |