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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153203203321

Autore

Wan Marco

Titolo

Masculinity and the trials of modern fiction / / Marco Wan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-54408-3

1-134-84387-9

1-134-84380-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Discourses of law

Disciplina

345.42/0274

Soggetti

Trials (Obscenity) - France - History

Trials (Obscenity) - England - History

Law and literature - France - History

Law and literature - England - History

Sexual freedom in literature

Masculinity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Glasshouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : legal interpretation, gender and the novel -- The Madame Bovary trial : the lascivious painting of Flaubert's Androgyne -- The Charlot s'amuse trial : onanism and the scandal of naturalist fiction -- The Henry Vizetelly trials : Emile Zola's obscene patricide -- The Oscar Wilde trials : reading sodomitical texts in court -- The well of loneliness trials : lesbianism and the return of the repressed.