The Art of Scandal by Sean Latham
The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman a clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism.-
Nations of Nothing But Poetry
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Epic Negation
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Blasphemous Modernism
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Culture Writing
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Without Copyrights
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Americanizing Britain
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The Poetry of the Americas
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Consuming Traditions
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Modernism and Copyright
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Accented America
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Modernism's Mythic Pose
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Digital Modernism
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Commonwealth of Letters
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Pragmatic Modernism
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In a Strange Room
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The Degenerate Muse
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Modernism and the New Spain
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Modernism and Melancholia
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At the Violet Hour
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Out of Context
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In and Out of Sight
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Modernist Informatics
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World Views
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Unseasonable Youth
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Fictions of Autonomy
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The Great American Songbooks
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The Modernist Art of Queer Survival
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Machine-Age Comedy
Enormously valuable..Latham has clearly achieved a primary goal of The Art of Scandal, which has brought the roman a clef and libel law to the center of research in literary studies. * Clio *
The Art of Scandal elevates the chronically depreciated roman a clef to its rightful place as a signature form of the novel. A shrewd, provocative and immensely engaging work, one that demands we revisit our assumptions about the values and methods of revolutionary modernists from Wilde and Freud to Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Lawrence and Jean Rhys. * Maria DiBattista, Princeton University *
This is an important book, a real contribution to both modernist studies and the theory of narrative. It is a smart, readable, original, and very convincing study of a form of narrative crucial to both the rise of the novel and the development of modernism. * Robert Scholes, Brown University *
The Art of Scandal is a lively account of the modern roman a clef. Well informed, superbly written, and critically intelligent, Latham's study is always engaging as he explains the 'art of scandal,' real and imagined. * Thomas F. Staley, The University of Texas at Austin *
A taut, well-researched study of a genre that has had an enormous influence on the development of the novel. * James Joyce Quarterly *
The Art of Scandal elevates the chronically depreciated roman a clef to its rightful place as a signature form of the novel. A shrewd, provocative and immensely engaging work, one that demands we revisit our assumptions about the values and methods of revolutionary modernists from Wilde and Freud to Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Lawrence and Jean Rhys. * Maria DiBattista, Princeton University *
This is an important book, a real contribution to both modernist studies and the theory of narrative. It is a smart, readable, original, and very convincing study of a form of narrative crucial to both the rise of the novel and the development of modernism. * Robert Scholes, Brown University *
The Art of Scandal is a lively account of the modern roman a clef. Well informed, superbly written, and critically intelligent, Latham's study is always engaging as he explains the 'art of scandal,' real and imagined. * Thomas F. Staley, The University of Texas at Austin *
A taut, well-researched study of a genre that has had an enormous influence on the development of the novel. * James Joyce Quarterly *
Sean Latham is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the Director of the Modernist Journals Project and the author of Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel and Joyce's Modernism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199922932 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199922934 |
| Title | The Art of Scandal |
| Author | Sean Latham |
| Series | Modernist Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2012-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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