Chris Forster

Filthy Material

Modernism and the Media of Obscenity

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Produktbeschreibung

Filthy Material brings together media theory, close reading, and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity. Examining the major figures of modernist obscenity trials like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall, Filthy Material reveals the ways that twentieth-century obscenity was shaped by changes in the history of media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780190840877
• ISBN-10: 0190840870
• Artikelnr.: 52524616

Autorenporträt

Chris Forster is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Preface. End of Obscenity
* Introduction. Modernism and the Media History of Obscenity
* Chapter 1. The Pornometric Gospel: Wyndham Lewis, Walter Sickert, and
the Collapse of the Ideology the Nude
* Chapter 2. Skirmishing with Jolly Roger: D. H. Lawrence and the
Obscenity of Book Piracy
* Chapter 3. Very Serious Books: The Circulation and Censorship of The
Well of Loneliness and Sleeveless Errand
* Chapter 4. Obscenity and the Voice: Eliot's Bawdry
* Chapter 5. Materializing Ulysses: Obscenity and the Work of Print in
the Age of Film
* Coda. The Next Lawrence or Joyce-The Obelisk and Olympia Presse
* Index