Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-century Novel in the Public Sphere

by SusanWatkins (Editor), JagoMorrison (Editor)

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  2007

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  This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten texts against the challenges of their milieus, it considers twentieth-century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.