Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: the Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere....Pages 1-26
The ‘nameless shamelessness’ of Ulysses: Libel and the Law of Literature....Pages 27-47
’The aristocracy of intellect’: Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness....Pages 48-69
The Law and the Profits: the Case of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover....Pages 70-82
’You Reckon Folks Really Act Like That?’: Horror Films and the Work of Popular Culture in Richard Wright’s Native Son....Pages 83-98
Scandalous for being Scandalous: ‘monstrous huge fuck[s]’ and ‘slambanging big sodomies’ in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road....Pages 99-116
Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People: the Novel and the Public Sphere....Pages 117-135
’Precious Gift/Piece of Shit’: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and the Revenge of History....Pages 136-149
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: the Scandal that Disturbed Domestic Tranquillity....Pages 150-171
Helen Darville, The Hand that Signed the Paper: Who is ‘Helen Demidenko’?....Pages 172-186
J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal....Pages 187-205
Afterword....Pages 206-208
Back Matter....Pages 209-219