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The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism

Autor Florence Dore
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 sep 2005
We have tended to think of American literary modernism as participating in the culture's general rejection of prudery, and how else are we to read modernists' forthright representations of sexual characters? The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of the era as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel. In spite of novelists' efforts to represent sexuality explicitly, this silence ("negative narration") reproduces censorship, rendering it symbolic at the moment of its legal demise. The Novel and the Obscene differs from current scholarship in law and literature, which positions law as the historical key that will unlock the ambiguous literary text. In examining the relation between obscene novels and sexual identity, The Novel and the Obscene instead illuminates the roles of both the novel and obscenity law in establishing sexual identity in American civic life.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780804751872
ISBN-10: 0804751870
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press

Recenzii

"The cultural ironies and deconstructive logic at the heart of The Novel and the Obscene will appeal to the current generation of literary critics. I found Dore's thesis intuitively plausible and was... persuaded by her excellent analysis."—Modern Fiction Studies

"The Novel and the Obscene combines attention to the specific context of American modernism with deft close readings and attention to the gendered dynamics of reception... Dore's closely-argued and inventive study offers a significant contribution to earlier work on modernism and censorship."—Studies in the Novel

"The Novel and the Obscene delivers powerful, illuminating readings and offers valuable insight into the construction of gender in American modernism."—Novel: A Forum on Fiction

Notă biografică

Florence Dore is Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University.

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“Dore’s insights will contribute to the lively contemporary discussion about sexuality and the public realm, advancing our understanding of the interplay between law and psyche, between legal censorship and psychological taboo. The four novels discussed are well-chosen, and Dore reads them with great knowledge and acumen.” —Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“This is an extremely sophisticated and rigorous book that draws on poststructuralist, gender, and psychoanalytic theory to counter a commonly held but arguably inaccurate view of literary modernism as sexually progressive and overt in its representation of sexuality. Working with obscenity law, Dore exposes a complex set of issues that trouble the representation of sexuality in modernist fiction.” —Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College

Descriere

The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel—a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise.