Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita

Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita /

"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 first treated them...

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Main Author: Ladenson, Elisabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007
Subjects:
French literature > 19th century > Censorship.
English fiction > 20th century > Censorship.
American fiction > 20th century > Censorship.
Trials (Obscenity) > France > History > 19th century.
Trials (Obscenity) > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Trials (Obscenity) > United States > History > 20th century.
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