Filthy Material
Modernism and the Media of Obscenity
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2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-084086-0 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-084086-0 (ISBN)
Filthy Material brings together media theory, close reading, and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity. Examining the major figures of modernist obscenity trials like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall, Filthy Material reveals the ways that twentieth-century obscenity was shaped by changes in the history of media.
Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. Judgments about obscenity, which hinged on understanding how texts were circulated and read, were often proxies for the changing place of literature in an age of new technological media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how "literary value" was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of obscenity in order to discover a history of technological media behind debates about moral corruption and sexual explicitness. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective "end of obscenity" for literature at the middle of the century, it argues, is not simply a product of cultural liberalization but of a changing media ecology.
Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity and novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism's obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (like T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (like Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.
Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. Judgments about obscenity, which hinged on understanding how texts were circulated and read, were often proxies for the changing place of literature in an age of new technological media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how "literary value" was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of obscenity in order to discover a history of technological media behind debates about moral corruption and sexual explicitness. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective "end of obscenity" for literature at the middle of the century, it argues, is not simply a product of cultural liberalization but of a changing media ecology.
Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity and novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism's obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (like T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (like Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.
Chris Forster is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University
Acknowledgments
Preface. End of Obscenity
Introduction. Modernism and the Media History of Obscenity
Chapter 1. The Pornometric Gospel: Wyndham Lewis, Walter Sickert, and the Collapse of the Ideology the Nude
Chapter 2. Skirmishing with Jolly Roger: D. H. Lawrence and the Obscenity of Book Piracy
Chapter 3. Very Serious Books: The Circulation and Censorship of The Well of Loneliness and Sleeveless Errand
Chapter 4. Obscenity and the Voice: Eliot's Bawdry
Chapter 5. Materializing Ulysses: Obscenity and the Work of Print in the Age of Film
Coda. The Next Lawrence or Joyce-The Obelisk and Olympia Presse
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 images |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 462 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-084086-2 / 0190840862 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-084086-0 / 9780190840860 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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