| Modernism and the Law Contributor(s): Spoo, Robert (Author), Rogers, Gayle (Editor), Latham, Sean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474275818 ISBN-13: 9781474275811 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 340.115 |
| LCCN: 2017056911 |
| Series: New Modernisms |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.86 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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-Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. Written by one of the leading authorities on the subject, the book covers such topics as: - Obscenity laws and censorship- Copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain - Patronage and literary piracy - Privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail Including an annotated list of relevant statutes, treaties, and cases, this is an essential read for scholars and students coming to the subject for the first time as well as for experienced scholars. |
Contributor Bio(s): Latham, Sean: - Sean Latham is Professor and Pauline Walter Chair of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa, USA. He is a former President of the Modernist Studies Association, current Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and Co-Directory of the Modernist Journals Project (http: //dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/). His many publications include The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law and the Roman a Clef (OUP, 2009) and, as Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses (CUP, 2013).Rogers, Gayle: - Gayle Rogers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe and Literary History (OUP, 2012).Spoo, Robert: - Robert Spoo is Chapman Distinguished Professor at theUniversity of Tulsa College of Law, USA. A former editor of the JamesJoyce Quarterly, his manyprevious publications include Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the PublicDomain and James Joyce and the Language of History. His work on Modernism andthe Law was supported by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. |