Description
| Product ID: | 9781403995841 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Scandalous Fictions |
| Subtitle: | The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere |
| Authors: | Author: Jago Morrison, Susan Watkins |
| Page Count: | 219 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten texts against the challenges of their milieus, it considers twentieth-century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition. Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere; J.Morrison & S.Watkins The ''nameless shamelessness'' of Ulysses : Libel and the Law of Literature; S.Latham ''The aristocracy of intellect'': Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall''s The Well of Loneliness ; S.Watkins The Law and the Profits: The Case of D.H. Lawrence''s Lady Chatterley''s Lover ; F.Becket ''You Reckon Folks Really Act Like That?'': Horror Films and the Work of Popular Culture in Richard Wright''s Native Son ; J.Smethurst Scandalous for Being Scandalous: ''monstrous huge fuck[s]'' and ''slambanging big sodomies'' in Jack Kerouac''s On the Road ; R.J. Ellis Chinua Achebe''s A Man of the People : The Novel and the Public Sphere; J.Morrison ''Precious Gift/Piece of Shit'': Salman Rushdie''s The Satanic Verses and the Revenge of History; S.Sharma Toni Morrison''s Beloved : The Scandal That Disturbed Domestic Tranquility; M.Mobley Helen Darville, The Hand that Signed the Paper : Who is ''Helen Demidenko''?; S.Vice J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace : Reading Race/Reading Scandal; K.Easton Index Afterword; J.Morrison & S.Watkins Index |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave USA |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-10-31 |
