Mrs Grundy's Enemies
Censorship, Realist Fiction and the Politics of Sexual Representation
(Sprache: Englisch)
This study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods argues that Realist writers played a significant role in the battle against censorship by contributing transgressive sexual representations as well as incorporating themes of censorship in their fictions.
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This study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods argues that Realist writers played a significant role in the battle against censorship by contributing transgressive sexual representations as well as incorporating themes of censorship in their fictions.
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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.
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Contents: Zola in the country of Mrs Grundy: Naturalism, reticence and the moral aesthetics of the Victorian novel - Some fear of Mrs Grundy before their eyes: George Moore, British Naturalism and censorship - Defying Mrs Grundy: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and the hilltop fiction of Grant Allen - Making Mrs Grundy's flesh creep: The New Woman assault on late Victorian censorship - Burying Mrs Grundy alive: Censorship, morality and the Edwardian sex novel.
Autoren-Porträt von Anthony Patterson
Anthony Patterson holds a PhD from Durham University. He has held posts as Visiting Lecturer at Northumbria University, Research Assistant at Durham University, and Academic Tutor at Sunderland University. He is currently Assistant Professor at the American University of Ras al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anthony Patterson
- 2013, Neuausgabe, VIII, 235 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3034308876
- ISBN-13: 9783034308878
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.05.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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