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Literary Obscenities

U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
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Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word’s power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Getting Off the Page

2. How to Misbehave as aBehaviorist (if You’re Wyndham Lewis)

3. Erskine Caldwell, Smut, and the Paperbacking of Obscenity

4. Sin, Sex, and Segregation in Lillian Smith’s Silent South

Conclusion: Off the Page

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“[Bachman] offers a historical perspective on modernism and literary naturalism and shrewdly covers the relationship between what is on the page and how readers respond to it.”

—D. C. Greenwood, Choice

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