Modernism and the Law

ISBN-13: 9781474275811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Robert Spoo; Gayle Rogers; Sean Latham

Opis

Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period - from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and James Joyce's Ulysses - Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. Written by one of the leading authorities on the subject, the book covers such topics as: - Obscenity laws and censorship
- Copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain
- Patronage and literary piracy
- Privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail Including a glossary of relevant legal terms, this is an essential read for scholars and students coming to the subject for the first time as well as for experienced scholars.