01796nam a2200373 a 4500 EDZ0000073568 StDuBDS 20150804193938.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 091022s2009 nyua fo 001 0 eng d 9780199869053 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PR888.M63 820.9112 22 Latham, Sean, 1971- The art of scandal [electronic resource] : modernism, libel law, and the roman �a clef / Sean Latham. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 1 online resource (xiii, 202 p.) : ill. Modernist literature & culture Latham proposes that writers and readers throughout the early 20th century revived the codes and habits of the roman �a clef as part of a larger assault on Victorian realism - modernism. He elaborates a concept of modernism that weaves coterie culture with the mass media, psychology with celebrity, and literature with the law. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Romans �a clef Great Britain History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. Scandals in literature. Truthfulness and falsehood in literature. Libel and slander in literature. Law and literature Great Britain History 20th century. Print version 9780195379990 Modernist literature & culture. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379990.001.0001 37828 37828