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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265235203321

Autore

Bachman Erik M. <1981->

Titolo

Literary Obscenities : U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism / / Erik M. Bachman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2018

ISBN

0-271-08167-8

0-271-08169-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Refiguring modernism

Disciplina

809/.933538

Soggetti

Naturalism in literature - History - 20th century

Obscenity (Law) - United States - History - 20th century

Pornography in literature - History - 20th century

Sex in literature - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Getting off the page -- How to misbehave as a behaviorist (if you're Wyndham Lewis) -- Erskine Caldwell, smut, and the paperbacking of obscenity -- Sin, sex, and segregation in Lillian Smith's Silent south.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior"--Provided by publisher.