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The Novel and the Obscene : Sexual Subjects in American Modernism /
We have tended to think of American literary modernism as participating in the culture's general rejection of prudery, and how else are we to read modernists' forthright representations of sexual characters? The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of the era as sexually progressive...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Novel and the Symbolic
- Part I Knowing
- 1 Guilty Reading: Stupidity and Sex in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
- 2 Ultimate Delicacy: Propriety and False Femininity in Willa Cather's The Professor's House
- Part II Seeing
- 3 Counting as Decent: Obscenity and Masculinity in William Faulkner's Sanctuary
- 4 A Gulf of Silence: Richard Wright's Native Son and Obscenity's Racial Demand
- Appendix: Legal Cases Cited
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index