Modernism and the Law

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By Robert Spoo *86

Published Feb. 14, 2019

Modernism and the Law (Bloomsbury) explores how legal systems on both sides of the Atlantic responded to modernism, including obscenity laws which banned publication of books from authors such as D.H. Lawrence and Radclyffe Hall as well as rulings on privacy, copyright, defamation, etc.

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