The Art of Scandal
Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman a Clef
Series: Modernist Literature & Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 April 2009
- ISBN 9780195379990
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 241x164x20 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 halftones 0
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Long description:
The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies; writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman a clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity, and the
law. Latham uses the genre to reconfigure modernism's development as a cultural practice diffused across texts and networks of reception and circulation in which they are embedded. Such a move means coming to terms with the ways in which producers as well as consumers used elements of the roman a clef to challenge
fiction's apparent autonomy from the social and political world. This widespread process provoked not only a generative aesthetic crisis, but a gradually unfolding legal quandary that led Britain's highest courts to worry that fiction itself might be illegal. Writers like James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Oscar Wilde, and D.H. Lawrence deliberately employed elements of the roman a clef, only to find that it possessed an uncanny and even dangerous agency of its own-one that resonated through a
complex system of publicity and constraint. Bringing these effects fully into view requires a mixture of close reading and archival excavation that proceeds here in chapters on the anonymous case study, Oscar Wilde's trial, libel law, celebrity salons, and Parisian bohemia. The Art of Scandal thus both salvages
the roman a clef and traces its weird itinerary through the early twentieth century. In the process, it elaborates an expansive concept of modernism that interweaves coterie culture with the mass media, psychology with celebrity, and literature with the law.
Table of Contents:
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter I
Introduction: Fact, Fiction, Pleasure
Chapter II
True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman a clef
Chapter III
Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud
Chapter IV
Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction
Appendix to Chapter IV
A Brief Digest of British and Irish Libel Law
Chapter V
The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel
Chapter VI
The Coterie as Commodity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys and the Business of Revenge
Appendix
A Select Bibliography of the Modernist Roman a Clef
