Modernism and the Law - Paperback

by Robert Spoo (Author)

Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and James Joyce's Ulysses-Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. Written by one of the leading authorities on the subject, the book covers such topics as:

- Obscenity laws and censorship
- Copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain
- Patronage and literary piracy
- Privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail

Including an annotated list of relevant statutes, treaties, and cases, this is an essential read for scholars and students coming to the subject for the first time as well as for experienced scholars.

Author Biography

Robert Spoo is Chapman Distinguished Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law, USA. A former editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, his many previous publications include Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain and James Joyce and the Language of History. His work on Modernism and the Law was supported by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.