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

by Sean Latham

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199922934

ISBN13:9780199922932

Release Date:August 2012

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:220 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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