This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism's privileged status in the struggle against and ultimate defeat of censorship remains largely unquestioned. This book contests that the vital role played by Realist writers in the battle against censorship and the dominant sexual ideologies that bolstered it has been significantly underestimated.
It contends that many Realist writers not only produced transgressive sexual representations within the confines of an existent culture of censorship, but also reflexively incorporated themes and issues of censorship into their fiction. Through its focus on censorship, the book explores a number of narratives to reveal their complex sexual politics and show how texts that ostensibly oppose traditional morality can also reinforce dominant sexual ideologies in new paradigms of scientific rationality.
Moreover, reading these fictions through the lens of censorship offers fresh insights into the novels and short stories of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
| ISBN: | 9783034308878 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2013 |
| Author: | Anthony Patterson |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 235 pages |
| Series: | Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies: women and girls Social and cultural history Oral history Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000 |
This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism's privileged status in the struggle against and ultimate defeat of censorship remains largely unquestioned.
Mrs Grundy's Enemies features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women and girls, Social and cultural history, Oral history, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 2000
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Mrs Grundy's Enemies was written by Anthony Patterson and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Mrs Grundy's Enemies has 235 pages
Yes it is part of Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century series