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Book SynopsisThe Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel—a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise.
Trade Review"The cultural ironies and deconstructive logic at the heart of
The Novel and the Obscene will appeal to the current generation of literary critics. I found Dore's thesis intuitively plausible and was... persuaded by her excellent analysis." --
Modern Fiction Studies"
The Novel and the Obscene delivers powerful, illuminating readings and offers valuable insight into the construction of gender in American modernism." --
Novel: A Forum on Fiction"
The Novel and the Obscene combines attention to the specific context of American modernism with deft close readings and attention to the gendered dynamics of reception... Dore's closely-argued and inventive study offers a significant contribution to earlier work on modernism and censorship." --
Studies in the NovelTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments @toc2:Introduction: The Novel and the Symbolic: Sexual Logic in American Obscenity Law and Literature, 19001940 1 @toc1:Part I: Knowing @toc2:1 Guilty Reading: Stupidity and Sex in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie 000 2 Ultimate Delicacy: Propriety and False Femininity in Willa Cather's The Professor's House 000 Part II: Seeing 3 Counting as Decent: Obscenity and Masculinity in William Faulkner's Sanctuary 000 4 A Gulf of Silence: Richard Wright's Native Son and Obscenity's Racial Demand 000 @toc4:Appendix: Legal Cases Cited 000 Notes 000 Words Cited 000 Index 000
