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Author Patterson, Anthony

Title Mrs Grundy's enemies : censorship, realist fiction and the politics of sexual representation / Anthony Patterson
Published Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages)
Series Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century ; 2
Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century ; 2.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Zola in the Country of Mrs Grundy; Chapter 2 Some Fear of Mrs Grundy before Their Eyes; Chapter 3 Defying Mrs Grundy; Chapter 4 Making Mrs Grundy's Flesh Creep; Chapter 5 Burying Mrs Grundy Alive; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838 -- Criticism and interpretation
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Repression (Psychology) in literature.
Realism in literature.
Censorship in literature.
Censorship in literature.
English fiction.
Realism in literature.
Repression (Psychology) in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783035303964
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9783035303964