Modernism and the Law (New Modernisms)

by RobertSpoo (Author), Robert Spoo (Author)

New
Illustrated
2018
$34.10

Exploring 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 blackmail Including 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.

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Exploring 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 blackmail Including 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.

$34.10

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 208
Edition: Annotated
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09 Aug 2018
ISBN 10: 147427580X
ISBN 13: 9781474275804
Book Overview: Written by one of the world's leading scholars on modernism and law, this is an authoritative introduction to the legal contexts of modernist literary culture.

Author Bio

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.