Masculinity and the trials of modern fiction / / Marco Wan

• Autore: Wan Marco
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 pages)
• Disciplina: 345.42/0274
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were interpreted in the courtroom: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Paul Bonnetain's Charlot s'amuse , Henry Vizetelly's English translation of Émile Zola's La Terre , Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness . It argues that each of these novels attracted legal censure because they presented figures of sexual dissidence - the androgyne, the onanist or masturbator, the patricide, the homosexual and the lesbian - that called into question an increasingly fragile normative, middleclass masculinity. Offering close readings of the novels themselves, and of legal material from the proceedings, such as the trial transcripts and judicial opinions, the book addresses both the doctrinal dimensions of Victorian obscenity and censorship, as well as the reading practices at work in the courtroom. It situates the cases in their historical context, and highlights how each trial constitutes a scene of reading - an encounter between literature and the law - through which different forms of masculinity were shaped, bolstered or challenged.
• Titolo autorizzato: Masculinity and the trials of modern fiction
• ISBN: 1-315-54408-3; 1-134-84387-9; 1-134-84380-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153203203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II