The Novel and the Obscene

The Novel and the Obscene
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 0804751870
ISBN-13 : 9780804751872
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Download or read book The Novel and the Obscene written by Florence Dore and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel—a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise.


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