British Modernism and Censorship

Informationen zum Autor Celia Marshik is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Klappentext Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit as well as harm writers and the works they create in response to it. Zusammenfassung Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit as well as harm writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship! of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship and of British modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the ethics of indecency; 1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the censorship dialectic; 2. Bernard Shaw's defensive laughter; 3. Virginia Woolf and the gender censorship; 4. James Joyce and the necessary scandal of art; 5. Jean Rhys and the downward path; Afterword: forgotten evils; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Celia Marshik, Celia (State University of New York Marshik, Marshik Celia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2006
• EAN: 9780521859660
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85966-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Ethical issues: censorship / freedom of expression