Modernism and the Law

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Robert Spoo, Sean Latham

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A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExploring 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 blackmailIncluding 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-09
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt249 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Modernisms
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474275804
UtmärkelserWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (UK)

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In a style that appropriately reads as a concise legal brief, Robert Spoo analyzes the tension between censorship (a form of “super-copyright” controlled by a government in league with “purity groups”) and copyright itself, which intrinsically is incapable of protecting allegedly indecent works. . . . Literary modernism should be seen, then, as Spoo rightly sees it, as what came about when the constraints of censorship (ever porous) met in complex ways with the protections (never tight) of copyright.