"A Glasshouse book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : legal interpretation, gender and the novel -- The Madame Bovary trial : the lascivious painting of Flaubert's Androgyne -- The Charlot s'amuse trial : onanism and the scandal of naturalist fiction -- The Henry Vizetelly trials : EĢmile Zola's obscene patricide -- The Oscar Wilde trials : reading sodomitical texts in court -- The well of loneliness trials : lesbianism and the return of the repressed.
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