The author recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors, asking what these often colourful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and l…
The author recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors, asking what these often colourful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and l…
Gustave Flaubert : Emma Bovary goes to Hollywood -- Charles Baudelaire : florist of evil -- James Joyce : Leopold Bloom's trip to the outhouse -- Radclyffe Hall : the well of prussic acid -- D.H. Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins -- Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of…
"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that fi…
"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that fi…
