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Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity Pease, Allison (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity
Pease, Allison (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
This book explores the relationship between art and pornography from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Allison Pease focuses on how writers such as Swinburne, Joyce and Lawrence and artist Aubrey Beardsley shifted the boundaries between aesthetics and pornography first established in the 1700s to reinforce class distinctions.
264 pages, 24 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 5, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521100953 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 230 × 16 mm · 406 g |
| Language | English |