Research Catalog

Title

Mrs Grundy's enemies : censorship, realist fiction and the politics of sexual representation / Anthony Patterson.

Author

Patterson, Anthony (College teacher of English literature)

Publication

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2013]

Supplementary Content

• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• 01
• 04

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Details

Description

235 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism's privileged status in the struggle against and ultimate defeat of censorship remains largely unquestioned. This book contests that the vital role played by Realist writers in the battle against censorship and the dominant sexual ideologies that bolstered it has been significantly underestimated. It contends that many Realist writers not only produced transgressive sexual representations within the confines of an existent culture of censorship, but also reflexively incorporated themes and issues of censorship into their fiction. Through its focus on censorship, the book explores a number of narratives to reveal their complex sexual politics and show how texts that ostensibly oppose traditional morality can also reinforce dominant sexual ideologies in new paradigms of scientific rationality. Moreover, reading these fictions through the lens of censorship offers fresh insight into the novels and short stories of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century

Uniform Title

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century.

Alternative Title

Censorship, realist fiction and the politics of sexual representation

Subject

• 1800 - 1899
• 1800
• Censorship > England > History > 19th century
• Censorship
• Zensur
• England

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.

Call Number

JFE 15-2885

ISBN

• 9783034308878
• 3034308876

LCCN

2013934156

OCLC

841521491

Author

Patterson, Anthony (College teacher of English literature), author.

Title

Mrs Grundy's enemies : censorship, realist fiction and the politics of sexual representation / Anthony Patterson.

Publisher

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Inhaltsverzeichnis

01

04

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

1800

Research Call Number

JFE 15-2885