Scandalous Fictions The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere

by Morrison, Jago; Watkins, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781403995841
• ISBN10: 1403995842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Riven by world wars and cold wars, atrocities and genocides, the twentieth-century was also one of sexual, cultural and ideological revolutions, each inscribed across the fictions it produced. This fascinating new volume re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten groundbreaking texts against the challenges of their milieux, it considers twentieth century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.

Author Biography

Jago Morrison is Head of English at University College Chichester. Susan Watkins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

Introduction--J.Morrison & S.Watkins * The 'nameless shamelessness' of James Joyce's Ulysses: Libel and the Law of Literature--S.Latham * 'The aristocracy of intellect': Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness--S.Watkins * The Law and the Profits: the case of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover--F.Becket * 'You Reckon Folks Really Act Like That?': Horror Films and the Work of Popular Culture in Richard Wright's Native Son--J.Smethurst * Scandalous for Being Scandalous: 'monstrous huge fuck[s]' and 'slambanging big sodomies' in Jack Kerouac's On the Road--R.J. Ellis * Chinua Achebe A Man of the People: The Novel and the Public Sphere--J.Morrison * 'Precious Gift/Piece of Shit': Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the Revenge of History--S.Sharma * Toni Morrison's Beloved: Disturbing Domestic Tranquility--M.Mobley McKenzie * Helen Darville, The Hand that Signed the Paper: Who is 'Helen Demidenko'?--S.Vice * J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal--K.Easton * Index

Introduction--J.Morrison & S.Watkins * The 'nameless shamelessness' of James Joyce's Ulysses: Libel and the Law of Literature--S.Latham * 'The aristocracy of intellect': Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness--S.Watkins * The Law and the Profits: the case of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover--F.Becket * 'You Reckon Folks Really Act Like That?': Horror Films and the Work of Popular Culture in Richard Wright's Native Son--J.Smethurst * Scandalous for Being Scandalous: 'monstrous huge fuck[s]' and 'slambanging big sodomies' in Jack Kerouac's On the Road--R.J. Ellis * Chinua Achebe A Man of the People: The Novel and the Public Sphere--J.Morrison * 'Precious Gift/Piece of Shit': Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the Revenge of History--S.Sharma * Toni Morrison's Beloved: Disturbing Domestic Tranquility--M.Mobley McKenzie * Helen Darville, The Hand that Signed the Paper: Who is 'Helen Demidenko'?--S.Vice * J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal--K.Easton * Index

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