Scandalous Fictions (eBook) von Jago Morrison

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere; J.Morrison& S.Watkins The 'nameless shamelessness' of Ulysses : Libel and the Law of Literature; S.Latham 'The aristocracy of intellect': Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness ; S.Watkins The Law and the Profits: The Case of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover ; F.Becket 'You Reckon Folks Really Act Like That?': Horror Films and the Work of Popular Culture in Richard Wright's Native Son ; J.Smethurst Scandalous for Being Scandalous: 'monstrous huge fuck[s]' and 'slambanging big sodomies' in Jack Kerouac's On the Road ; R.J. Ellis Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People : The Novel and the Public Sphere; J.Morrison 'Precious Gift/Piece of Shit': Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the Revenge of History; S.Sharma Toni Morrison's Beloved : The Scandal That Disturbed Domestic Tranquility; M.Mobley Helen Darville, The Hand that Signed the Paper : Who is'Helen Demidenko'?; S.Vice J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace : Reading Race/Reading Scandal; K.Easton Index Afterword; J.Morrison& S.Watkins Index

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten texts against the challenges of their milieus, it considers twentieth-century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.

FIONA BECKET Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Leeds University, UK KAI EASTON Currently Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa R.J. ELLIS Head of English and American Studies, University of Birmingham, UK SEAN LATHAM Associate Professor of English, University of Tulsa, USA MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE Associate Provost for Education Programs and Associate Professor of English, George Mason University in Fairfax, USA SHAILJA SHARMA Associate Professor of English, DePaul University, USA JAMES SMETHURST Associate Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA SUE VICE Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK.