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Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita / Elisabeth Ladenson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ladenson, Elisabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--19th century--Censorship.
- French literature.
- English fiction--20th century--Censorship.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--Censorship.
- American fiction.
- Trials (Obscenity)--France--History--19th century.
- Trials (Obscenity).
- Trials (Obscenity)--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Trials (Obscenity)--United States--History--20th century.
- History.
- Censorship.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 272 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Gustave Flaubert : Emma Bovary goes to Hollywood
- Charles Baudelaire : florist of evil
- James Joyce : Leopold Bloom's trip to the outhouse
- Radclyffe Hall : the well of prussic acid
- D.H. Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins
- Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of art
- Vladimir Nabokov : lolitigation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801441684
- OCLC:
- 70673198
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801441684
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