Modernism And The Law (New Modernisms) - 9781474275804

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-[this book surveys] the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. [The] book covers such topics as: obscenity laws and censorship; copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain; patronage and literary piracy; and privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail.--

• | Author: Robert Spoo, Gayle Rogers
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 147427580X
• | ISBN-13: 9781474275804