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Masculinity and the trials of modern fiction / Marco Wan.

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"How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were int...

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Main Author: Wan, Marco (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Discourses of law.
Subjects:
Trials (Obscenity) > France > History.
Trials (Obscenity) > England > History.
Law and literature > France > History.
Law and literature > England > History.
Sexual freedom in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Law and literature
Masculinity in literature
Sexual freedom in literature
Trials (Obscenity)
England
France
History
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : legal interpretation, gender and the novel
  • The Madame Bovary trial : the lascivious painting of Flaubert's Androgyne
  • The Charlot s'amuse trial : onanism and the scandal of naturalist fiction
  • The Henry Vizetelly trials : Émile Zola's obscene patricide
  • The Oscar Wilde trials : reading sodomitical texts in court
  • The well of loneliness trials : lesbianism and the return of the repressed.

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