Modernism and the Theater of Censorship

by Adam Parkes

Book Overview

Adam Parkes investigates the literary and cultural implications of the censorship encountered by several modern novelists in the early twentieth century. He situates modernism in the context of this censorship, examining the relations between such authors as D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf and the public controversies generated by their fictional explorations of modern sexual themes. These authors located "obscenity"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195097025
• ISBN13: 9780195097023
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"