03123nam 22007571 450 991096243300332120251211121140.097814742758281474275826978147427584214742758429781474275835147427583410.5040/9781474275842(CKB)4100000005465567(MiAaPQ)EBC5419729(OCoLC)1013519130(UtOrBLW)bpp09262007(MiAaPQ)EBC6163531(UtOrBLW)BP9781474275842BC(Perlego)808580(EXLCZ)99410000000546556720180531d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierModernism and the law /Robert SpooLondon ;New York :Bloomsbury Academic,2018.1 online resource (209 pages) illustrationsNew modernisms series9781474275811 1474275818 9781474275804 147427580X Includes bibliographical references and index.Oscar Wilde, man of law -- Obscenity and censorship -- Copyright, patronage, and courtesy -- Privacy, publicity, defamation, and blackmail -- Ezra Pound, man of war."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.New modernisms series (Bloomsbury (Firm))CensorshipCopyrightCulture and lawExtortionLibel and slanderModernism (Christian theology)Obscenity (Law)Pornography in literaturePublicity (Law)Censorship.Copyright.Culture and law.Extortion.Libel and slander.Modernism (Christian theology)Obscenity (Law)Pornography in literature.Publicity (Law)340/.115Spoo Robert E.221467UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910962433003321Modernism and the law4479974UNINA