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Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction

Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction

Hardcover

Series: Discourses of Law

General Law

ISBN10: 1138684198
ISBN13: 9781138684195
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 11 2016
Pages: 177
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were interpreted in the courtroom: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Paul Bonnetain's Charlot s'amuse, Henry Vizetelly's English translations of Émile Zola's La Terre, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. It argues that each of these novels attracted legal censure because they presented figures of sexual dissidence - the androgyne, the onanist or masturbator, the patricide, the homosexual, and the lesbian - that called into question an increasingly fragile normative, middle-class masculinity.

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