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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962433003321

Autore

Spoo Robert E.

Titolo

Modernism and the law / / Robert Spoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018

ISBN

9781474275828

1474275826

9781474275842

1474275842

9781474275835

1474275834

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New modernisms series

Disciplina

340/.115

Soggetti

Censorship

Copyright

Culture and law

Extortion

Libel and slander

Modernism (Christian theology)

Obscenity (Law)

Pornography in literature

Publicity (Law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Oscar Wilde, man of law -- Obscenity and censorship -- Copyright, patronage, and courtesy -- Privacy, publicity, defamation, and blackmail -- Ezra Pound, man of war.

Sommario/riassunto

"Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period--from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and James Joyce's Ulysses--Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. Written by one of the leading authorities



on the subject, the book covers such topics as: 1) Obscenity laws and censorship; 2) Copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain; 3) Patronage and literary piracy; 4) Privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail. Including an annotated list of relevant statutes, treaties, and cases, this is an essential read for scholars and students coming to the subject for the first time as well as for experienced scholars."--Bloomsbury Publishing.