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 / Elisabeth Ladenson.

"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: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
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.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Ballantyne
Table of Contents:
  • Gustave Flaubert : Emma Bovary goes to Hollywood
  • Charles Baudelaire : florist of evil
  • James Joyce : Leopold Bloom's trip to the outhouse
  • Radclyffe Hall : the well of prussic acid
  • D.H. Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins
  • Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of art
  • Vladimir Nabokov : lolitigation.

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