TY - BOOK ID - 104633348 TI - Literary trials : exceptio artis and theories of literature in court PY - 2016 SN - 9781501303197 1501303198 9781501303173 1501303171 9781501303180 150130318X 9781501303180 9781501303203 1501303201 1501334875 PB - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, DB - UniCat KW - Freedom of expression KW - Press law KW - Law and literature KW - Obscenity (Law) KW - Libel and slander KW - Calumny KW - Defamation KW - Slander KW - Torts KW - Erotic art KW - Law KW - Pornography KW - Literature and law KW - Literature KW - Censorship of the press KW - Newspaper publishing KW - Press KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Expression, Freedom of KW - Free expression KW - Liberty of expression KW - Civil rights KW - Law and legislation KW - Censorship UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104633348 AB - "From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in France, James Joyce's Ulysses and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the US, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in Great-Britain, up to the more recent trials on Klaus Mann's Mephisto and Maxim Biller's novel Esra in Germany.By bringing together international leading experts, Literary Trials represents the first step towards a systematic discussion of literary trials on a global scale. Beginning by first reassessing some of the most famous of these trials, it then analyses less well-known but significant literary trials. Special attention is paid to recent developments in the relationship between literature and judicature, pointing towards an increasing role for libel and defamation in the societal demarcation of what literature is, and is not, allowed to do."-- ER -