The art of scandal [electronic resource] : modernism, libel law, and the roman �a clef / Sean Latham.
Material type: TextSeries: Modernist literature & culturePublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 202 p.) : illISBN:- 9780199869053 (ebook) :
- Romans �a clef -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Scandals in literature
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
- Libel and slander in literature
- Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- 820.9112 22
- PR888.M63
Latham proposes that writers and readers throughout the early 20th century revived the codes and habits of the roman �a clef as part of a larger assault on Victorian realism - modernism. He elaborates a concept of modernism that weaves coterie culture with the mass media, psychology with celebrity, and literature with the law.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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