Elisabeth Ladenson: 1 book
Dirt for Art's Sake
Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita"
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
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 about a changing cultural climate that first treated...
