Literary Obscenities

Erik M. Bachman

earliest edition we have, 2018 Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018

In Literary Obscenities, Erik Bachman offers a comparative historical account of the parallel development of legal obscenity and literary modernism in this period. Getting Off the Page demonstrates that obscenity trials in the early twentieth century staged a wide-ranging cultural debate about the broader ramifications of the printed word?s power to?deprave,??excite,? and offend?or, more generally, to incite emotion...

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Literary Obscenities edition · 2019 · Pennsylvania State University Press · 208 pages · 9780271080062
Literary Obscenities hardcover · 2018 · Penn State University Press · 208 pages · 9780271080055
Literary Obscenities edition · 2018 · Pennsylvania State University Press · 9780271081670

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