Dirt for Art's Sake : : Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita" / / Elisabeth Ladenson.
In Dirt for Art's Sake, 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 treat...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: History Repeats Itself
- Chapter One. Gustave Flaubert: Emma Bovary Goes to Hollywood
- Chapter Two. Charles Baudelaire: Florist of Evil
- Chapter Three. James Joyce: Leopold Bloom’s Trip to the Outhouse
- Chapter Four. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Prussic Acid
- Chapter Five. D. H. Lawrence: Sexual Intercourse Begins
- Chapter Six. Henry Miller: A Gob of Spit in the Face of Art
- Chapter Seven. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolitigation
- Epilogue: The Return of the Repressed
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index