British modernism and censorship / Celia Marshik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshik, Celia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Great Britain.

Censorship--Great Britain.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Government censorship had a profound impact on the development of canonical modernism and on the public images of modernist writers. In British Modernism and Censorship, Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit, as well as harm, writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship, of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship, and of British modernism. Throughout, Marshik draws on an extraordinary range of evidence, including the files of government agencies and social purity organizations. She analyzes how works were written, revised, published, and performed in relation to this complex web of social forces. Chapters on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Jean Rhys demonstrate that, by both reacting against and complying with the forces of repression, writers reaped personal and stylistic benefits for themselves and for society at large.

Contents:

Introduction: the ethics of indecency 1

1 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the censorship dialectic 14

2 Bernard Shaw's defensive laughter 46

3 Virginia Woolf and the gender of censorship 88

4 James Joyce and the necessary scandal of art 126

5 Jean Rhys and the downward path 167

Afterword: forgotten evils 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-251) and index.

ISBN:

0521859662

OCLC:

70059803

Publisher Number:

9780521859660