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Paperback The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman À Clef Book

ISBN: 0199922934

ISBN13: 9780199922932

The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman À Clef

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The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity, and...

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