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Author Potter, Rachel

Title Obscene Modernism : Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940
Published Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Censorship Networks; 2. Anonymity and Self-regulation; 3. Publishers and Journals; 4. Words and Minds; 5. Offence; 6. International Rights; 7. Laughter; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary This text analyses the censorship of literature for obscenity in the period 1900-1940. It considers why writers were so interested in writing about obscenity as well as attempts by lawyers, writers and publishers to define literature as a special area of free speech
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Subject Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Obscenity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Obscenity (Law) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Pornography -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Pornography -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Intellectual freedom -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Intellectual freedom -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Censorship
Intellectual freedom
Modernism (Literature)
Obscenity (Law)
Pornography -- Law and legislation
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1299803008
9781299803008