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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
'Scandalous Fictions is a deliberately unsettling yet highly readable collection of essays. It asks readers to reconsider what they think they know about ten much-discussed texts, chosen precisely because they have been much discussed. Between them, these books have been accused of blasphemy, obscenity, imposture, libel, licentiousness, sedition, and racism; yet, until now, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the ways in which such literary scandals are produced. This important book offers fresh and exciting perspectives on the acts of public misreading, censorship, and appropriation which result in scandalous fictions.' - Faye Hammill, Senior Lecturer in English, Cardiff University, UK
'This stimulating collection of essays addresses a number of compelling questions about the relationship between fiction and the public sphere. Focusing on scandalous texts which have provoked public fury and in some cases legal action, the contributors explore the implications of the breaching of textual boundaries between the aesthetic and the religious, the literary and the juridical, the fictive and the pornographic. In its range and scope and its attention to transnational literature, Scandalous Fictions offers a timely reminder of the culturally productive power of this most hybrid of forms.' - Professor Clare Hanson, University of Southampton, UK
'The short, bold and powerfully written chapters raise a multitude of connections and questions which resonate at the end of the collection, beyond the novels discussed...an innovative and thought-provoking re-reading of many familiar texts.' Women: A Cultural Review
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Chichester, UK
Jago Morrison
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School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Susan Watkins
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scandalous Fictions
Book Subtitle: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere
Editors: Jago Morrison, Susan Watkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287846
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9584-1Published: 31 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28784-6Published: 31 October 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 219
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, North American Literature, Literary Theory