Modernism, mass culture, and the aesthetics of obscenity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pease, Allison
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Erotic literature, English > History and criticism. Lawrence, D. H. > (David Herbert), > 1885-1930 > Aesthetics. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, > 1837-1909 > Aesthetics. Beardsley, Aubrey, > 1872-1898 > Aesthetics. Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Aesthetics. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. Popular culture > Great Britain. Sex in literature. Obscenity (Law)

Table of Contents:

Civil society : aesthetics and pornography in the eighteenth century
Victorian obscenities : the new reading public, pornography, and Swinburne's sexual aesthetic
The mastery of form : Beardsley and Joyce
Being disinterested : D. H. Lawrence
Modernist criticism : the battle for culture and the accomodation of the obscene.