Modernism and the Law

AvRobert Spoo,Sean Latham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-09
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Modernisms
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474275811
Utmärkelser:Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (UK)

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Robert Spoo is Chapman Distinguished Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law, USA. A former editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, his many previous publications include Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain and James Joyce and the Language of History. His work on Modernism and the Law was supported by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

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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.

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List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Oscar Wilde, Man of Law2. Obscenity and Censorship3. Copyright, Patronage, and Courtesy4. Privacy, Publicity, Defamation, and Blackmail 5. Ezra Pound, Man of WarAnnotated List of Statutes, Treaties, and Cases CitedWorks CitedIndex