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Literary obscenities : U.S. case law and naturalism after modernism
\"Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior\"--Provided by publisher.
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Literary Obscenities : U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
In Literary Obscenities, Erik Bachman offers a comparative historical account of the parallel development of legal obscenity and literary modernism in this period. Getting Off the Page demonstrates that obscenity trials in the early twentieth century staged a wide-ranging cultural debate about the broader ramifications of the printed word's power to \"deprave, \" \"excite, \" and offend—or, more generally, to incite emotion and shape behavior. Bachman shows that far from seeking simply to transgress cultural norms or sexual boundaries, proscribed authors such as Wyndham Lewis, Erskine Caldwell, Lillian Smith, and James T. Farrell refigured the capacity of writing to evoke the obscene so that readers might become aware of the social processes by which they were being turned into mass consumers, voyeurs, and racialized subjects.
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Literary Obscenities
In Literary Obscenities, Erik Bachman offers a comparative historical account of the parallel development of legal obscenity and literary modernism in this period. Getting Off the Page demonstrates that obscenity trials in the early twentieth century staged a wide-ranging cultural debate about the broader ramifications of the printed word’s power to “deprave,” “excite,” and offend—or, more generally, to incite emotion and shape behavior. Bachman shows that far from seeking simply to transgress cultural norms or sexual boundaries, proscribed authors such as Wyndham Lewis, Erskine Caldwell, Lillian Smith, and James T. Farrell refigured the capacity of writing to evoke the obscene so that readers might become aware of the social processes by which they were being turned into mass consumers, voyeurs, and racialized subjects.
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The Even Stranger Career of Jim Crow: Sin, Sex, and Segregation in Lillian Smith’s Silent South
According to the opinions in Isenstadt, whether panderingly attractive or unduly repellent, words in the novel do in fact move beyond the limits of what language ought to do to people.8 Far from being the biased observations of a group of robed censors, however, these complementary perspectives on the effectiveness of Smith's language are shrewdly attentive to the quasiperformative functions her texts emphatically ascribe to words.
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Reopening the Matarazzo Case
Looking back at the postwar films of Raffaello Matarazzo (specifically,Chains, Tormento, Nobody's Children, andThe White Angel), this essay comparatively resituates Italian melodrama in terms of nationally marked conceptions of the popular that help produce an alternative critical perspective onto the period to that offered by neorealism.
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