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In November of 1915, British authorities invoked the 1857 Obscene Publications Act to suppress D. H. Lawrence's novel, The Rainbow. This was the first in a series of obscenity controversies that took place in Britain and the United States during the next decade. Joyce's Ulysses and Lawrence's last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, were censored in both countries; in 1928 the British courts banned Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness.

Adam Parkes investigates the literary and cultural implications of these controversies. Situating modernism in the context of censorship, he examines the relations between such authors as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf and the public scandals generated by their fictional explorations of modern sexual themes.

Locating "obscenity" at the level of stylistic and formal experiment, such novels as The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Ulysses, and Orlando dramatized problems of sexuality and expression in ways that subverted the moral, political, and aesthetic premises of their censors. In showing how modernism evolved within a culture of censorship, Modernism and the Theater of Censorship suggests that modern novelists, while shaped by their culture, attempted to reshape it.

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English
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242

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Modernism and the theater of censorship
1996, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.91209
Library of Congress
PR888.C4 P37 1996, PR888.C4P37 1996, PR888.C4 P37 1996eb, PR888.C4 P37 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 242 p. :
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1122116M
Internet Archive
modernismtheater0000park
ISBN 10
0195097025
LCCN
94048939
OCLC/WorldCat
45844542, 31867251
Library Thing
6313672
Goodreads
1162774

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