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Obscene Modernism - Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940 (Hardcover)
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Obscene Modernism - Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940 (Hardcover)
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During the period 1900-1940 novels and poems in the UK and US were
subject to strict forms of censorship and control because of their
representation of sex and sexuality. At the same time, however,
writers were more interested than ever before in writing about sex
and excrement, incorporating obscene slang words into literary
texts, and exploring previously uncharted elements of the modern
psyche. This book explores the far-reaching literary, legal and
philosophical consequences of this historical conflict between law
and literature. Alongside the famous prosecutions of D. H.
Lawrence's The Rainbow and James Joyce's Ulysses huge numbers of
novels and poems were altered by publishers and printers because of
concerns about prosecution. Far from curtailing the writing of
obscenity, however, censorship seemed to stimulate writers to
explore it further. During the period covered by this book novels
and poems became more experimentally obscene, and writers were
intensely interested in discussing the author's rights to free
speech, the nature of obscenity and the proper parameters of
literature. Literature, seen as a dangerous form of corruption by
some, was identified with sexual liberation by others. While
legislators tried to protect UK and US borders from obscene
literature, modernist publishers and writers gravitated abroad, a
development that prompted writers to defend the international
rights of banned authors and books. While the period 1900-1940 was
one of the most heavily policed in the history of literature, it
was also the time when the parameters of literature opened up and
writers seriously questioned the rights of nation states to control
the production and dissemination of literature.
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