Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita by Elisabeth Ladenson

Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita

Elisabeth Ladenson

304 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and ab...

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