The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman a by Sean Latham PDF

By Sean Latham

The paintings of Scandal advances a comparatively easy declare with far-reaching effects for modernist stories: writers and readers through the early 20th century revived the long-despised codes and conduct of the roman à clef as a key a part of that better attack on Victorian realism we now name modernism. within the technique, this resurgent style took on a lifetime of its personal, reconfiguring the complex dating among literature, star, and the legislations.

Sean Latham summons circumstances of the novel's social notoriety-and the various felony scandals the shape provoked-to articulate the fabric networks of reception and flow during which modernism took form, revealing a bit explored well known heritage inside of its improvement. manufacturers in addition to shoppers used parts of the debatable roman à clef, a style that demanding situations the assumption of fiction as self sufficient from the social and political international. In flip, this frequent perform provoked not just a generative aesthetic problem, but in addition a steadily unfolding felony problem that led Britain's maximum courts to fret that fiction itself will be unlawful. Modernism sat squarely, for a time, among literature and the law.

With skillful shut readings aided by means of vast archival study, Latham illuminates the area of backbiting, gossip, litigation, and sensationalism via chapters on Oscar Wilde's trial, Joyce's Ulysses, megastar salons, and Parisian bohemia. unique, colourful, and perceptive, The artwork of Scandal both salvages the recognition of the roman à clef shape and strains its curious itinerary throughout the early 20th century.

Seeking out the simplest new interdisciplinary paintings, this sequence explores the cultural bearings of literary modernism throughout a number of fields, geographies, symbolic types, and media.

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