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Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity

Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052110095X
ISBN13: 9780521100953
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 5 2009
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did explicit sexual representation become acceptable in the twentieth century as art rather than pornography? Allison Pease answers this question by tracing the relationship between aesthetics and obscenity from the 1700s onward, focusing especially on the way in which early twentieth-century writers incorporated a sexually explicit discourse into their work. The book considers the work of Swinburne, Joyce and Lawrence and artist Aubrey Beardsley within the framework of a wide-ranging account of aesthetic theory beginning with Kant and concluding with F. R. Leavis, I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot.

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