Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism After Modernism

by Erik M Bachman and Erik M. Bachman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271080051
• ISBN13: 9780271080055
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.7"