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The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (Modernist Literature & Culture) by Sean Latham, 1971- is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies; writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman à clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity, and the law. Latham uses the genre to reconfigure mod

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Author

Sean Latham, 1971-

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199922932

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism

Rating

3.57 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13