Modernism and the Theater of Censorship (Hardcover, New)

Adam Parkes investigates the literary and cultural implications of the censorship with which several major works of modern fiction were received in their time. He situates modernism in the context of this reception, examining the relations between such authors as D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf and the public controversies generated by their fictional explorations of modern sexual themes. These authors located "obscenity" at the level of stylistic and formal experiment. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, and Orlando dramatized problems of sexuality and expression in ways that subverted the moral, political, and aesthetic premises on which their censors operated. In showing how modernism evolved within a culture of censorship, Modernism and the Theater of Censorship suggests that modern novelists, while shaped by their culture, attempted to reshape it.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1996
First published:	February 1996
Authors:	Adam Parkes (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-509702-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-19-509702-5
Barcode:	9780195097023

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