Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity

by Chris Forster

Book Overview

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. Judgments about obscenity, which hinged on understanding how texts were circulated and read,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190840870
• ISBN13: 9780190840877
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"