Abstract
Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita, Elisabeth Ladenson. Cornell University Press, 2007. Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression, Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters. City Lights Books, 2006. From the trial of Madame Bovary in 1857 to the landmark case of The United States versus One Book Called “Ulysses” in 1933 to the Massachusetts Supreme Court's exoneration of Naked Lunch in 1966, the literary history of modernism has been entangled with the legal history of obscenity. When told by lawyers or legal scholars, the story of this struggle tends to appear as a progressive narrative detailing the victory of enlightened cosmopolitanism over Victorian prudery, and counseling vigilance in the face of continued censorship of creative expression. From Charles Rembar's triumphalist The End of Obscenity (1968), which chronicles his successes in exonerating Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill...
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