{"product_id":"the-novel-and-the-obscene-9780804751872","title":"The Novel and the Obscene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Obscene\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The cultural ironies and deconstructive logic at the heart of \u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Obscene\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to the current generation of literary critics. I found Dore's thesis intuitively plausible and was... persuaded by her excellent analysis.\" -- \u003ci\u003eModern Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Obscene\u003c\/i\u003e delivers powerful, illuminating readings and offers valuable insight into the construction of gender in American modernism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNovel: A Forum on Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Obscene\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eStudies in the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments  @toc2:Introduction: The Novel and the Symbolic: Sexual Logic in American Obscenity Law and Literature, 19001940\t1  @toc1:Part I: Knowing  @toc2:1\tGuilty Reading: Stupidity and Sex in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie\t000  2\tUltimate Delicacy: Propriety and False Femininity in Willa Cather's The Professor's House\t000  Part II: Seeing  3\tCounting as Decent: Obscenity and Masculinity in William Faulkner's Sanctuary\t000  4\tA Gulf of Silence: Richard Wright's Native Son and Obscenity's Racial Demand\t000  @toc4:Appendix: Legal Cases Cited\t000  Notes\t000  Words Cited\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405562290519,"sku":"9780804751872","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751872.jpg?v=1730492841","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-novel-and-the-obscene-9780804751872","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}