Sean Latham is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the Director of the Modernist Journals Project and the author of Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel and Joyce's Modernism.

• Contents ; Foreword vii ; 1. Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and Pleasure 3 ; 2. True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman a Clef 21 ; 3. Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud 43 ; 4. Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction 69 ; 5. The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel 89 ; 6. The Coterie as Commondity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys, and the Business of Revenge 124 ; Notes 167 ; Select Bibliography of Modernist Romans a Clef 193 ; Index 197

Enormously valuable...Latham has clearly achieved a primary goal of The Art of Scandal, which has brought the roman a clef and libel law to the center of research in literary studies.

Sean Latham is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the Director of the Modernist Journals Project and the author of Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel and Joyce's Modernism.

• Contents ; Foreword vii ; 1. Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and Pleasure 3 ; 2. True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman a Clef 21 ; 3. Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud 43 ; 4. Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction 69 ; 5. The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel 89 ; 6. The Coterie as Commondity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys, and the Business of Revenge 124 ; Notes 167 ; Select Bibliography of Modernist Romans a Clef 193 ; Index 197

Enormously valuable...Latham has clearly achieved a primary goal of The Art of Scandal, which has brought the roman a clef and libel law to the center of research in literary studies.

Sean Latham is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the Director of the Modernist Journals Project and the author of Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel and Joyce's Modernism.

• Contents ; Foreword vii ; 1. Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and Pleasure 3 ; 2. True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman a Clef 21 ; 3. Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud 43 ; 4. Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction 69 ; 5. The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel 89 ; 6. The Coterie as Commondity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys, and the Business of Revenge 124 ; Notes 167 ; Select Bibliography of Modernist Romans a Clef 193 ; Index 197

Enormously valuable...Latham has clearly achieved a primary goal of The Art of Scandal, which has brought the roman a clef and libel law to the center of research in literary studies.