The novel and the obscene
Subtitle: sexual subjects in American modernism
By: Florence Dore.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945; Cather, Willa, 1873-1947; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Guilty reading : stupidity and sex in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie; title: Ultimate delicacy : propriety and false femininity in Willa Cather's The professor's house; title: Counting as decent : obscenity and masculinity in William Faulkner's sanctuary; title: A gulf of silence : Richard Wright's Native son and obscenity's racial demand.