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  • Modernism and the Law

    by Professor Robert Spoo ...
    Series series New Modernisms
    A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExploring 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 ... Read more

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  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

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    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Read more

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  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    by Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Read more

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  • Hotbed

    Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

    by Joanna Scutts ...
    The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideasOn a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world.It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club*.* Its members were ... Read more

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  • Sodom on the Thames

    Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times

    by Morris B. Kaplan ...
    Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious scandals and one quieter incident. In 1871, transvestites "Stella" (Ernest Boulton) and "Fanny" ... Read more

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  • Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

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  • Validating Bachelorhood

    Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

    by Scott Slawinski ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity. ... Read more

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  • Reason and Imagination

    The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand

    Edited by Constance Jordan ...
    Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him, setting the standard for the bench with a matchless combination of legal brilliance and vast ... Read more

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  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early “talkies” firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial ... Read more

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    by Robert Scholes, Clifford Wulfman ...

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    The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde

    by Kristian Williams ...
    Foreword by graphic novelist, Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Watchmen)Will be of interest to LGBTQ readers. It's time to revive Wilde as a queer icon.At present, there are no comparable books in print. Not since George Woodcock's 1950 The Paradox of Oscar Wilde has there been a comprehensive, book-length study of the subject. Woodcock's study really only ... Read more

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