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Literary Obscenities

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Literary Obscenities

By Erik M. Bachman

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This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law's crisis of legitimation and modernism's crisis of representation into dialogue, Erik Bachman shows how obscenity trials and other attempts to suppress allegedly vulgar writing in the United States affected a wide-ranging debate about the power of the printed word to incit...Show more

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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ISBN

9780271080055

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published year

2018

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Literary Obscenities

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Hardcover

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