Modernism and the Law

Placeholder author icon
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.

Paw in print

Image
The cover of PAW’s December, 2024, issue, featuring a photo of Albert Einstein in a book-filled office with his secretary, Helen Dukas.
The Latest Issue

December 2024

Hidden heroines; U.N. speaker controversy; Kathy Crow ’89’s connections