LEADER 04867nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910789627503321 005 20220402004057.0 010 $a0-8014-6641-5 010 $a0-8014-7410-8 010 $a0-8014-6037-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460371 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079071 035 $a(OCoLC)726824182 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457546 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483893 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11302805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483893 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594163 035 $a(PQKB)10140390 035 $a(OCoLC)608174669 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28839 035 $a(DE-B1597)478689 035 $a(OCoLC)979910336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460371 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137925 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457546 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL752087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137925 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079071 100 $a20060718d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDirt for art's sake$b[electronic resource] $ebooks on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita /$fElisabeth Ladenson 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (298 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-336-20801-5 311 0 $a0-8014-4168-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface: Red Hot Chili Peppers --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue: History Repeats Itself --$tChapter One. Gustave Flaubert: Emma Bovary Goes to Hollywood --$tChapter Two. Charles Baudelaire: Florist of Evil --$tChapter Three. James Joyce: Leopold Bloom's Trip to the Outhouse --$tChapter Four. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Prussic Acid --$tChapter Five. D. H. Lawrence: Sexual Intercourse Begins --$tChapter Six. Henry Miller: A Gob of Spit in the Face of Art --$tChapter Seven. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolitigation --$tEpilogue: The Return of the Repressed --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces ? Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she considers, along the way, Les Fleurs du Mal, Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Lolita, and the works of the Marquis de Sade. Over the course of roughly a century, Ladenson finds, two ideas that had been circulating in the form of avant-garde heresy gradually became accepted as truisms, and eventually as grounds for legal defense. The first is captured in the formula "art for art's sake"-the notion that a work of art exists in a realm independent of conventional morality. The second is realism, vilified by its critics as "dirt for dirt's sake." In Ladenson's view, the truth of the matter is closer to -dirt for art's sake-"the idea that the work of art may legitimately include the representation of all aspects of life, including the unpleasant and the sordid. Ladenson also considers cinematic adaptations of these novels, among them Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita and the 1997 remake directed by Adrian Lyne, and various attempts to translate de Sade's works and life into film, which faced similar censorship travails. Written with a keen awareness of ongoing debates about free speech, Dirt for Art's Sake traces the legal and social acceptance of controversial works with critical acumen and delightful wit. 606 $aFrench literature$y19th century$xCensorship 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xCensorship 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xCensorship 606 $aTrials (Obscenity)$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTrials (Obscenity)$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTrials (Obscenity)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aFrench literature$xCensorship. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xCensorship. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xCensorship. 615 0$aTrials (Obscenity)$xHistory 615 0$aTrials (Obscenity)$xHistory 615 0$aTrials (Obscenity)$xHistory 676 $a840.9/007 700 $aLadenson$b Elisabeth$01550252 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789627503321 996 $aDirt for art's sake$93808909 997 $aUNINA