Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity

Klappentext Examines the changing relationship between art and pornography from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Civil society: aesthetics and pornography in the eighteenth century; 2. Victorian obscenities: the new reading public, pornography and Swinburne's sexual aesthetic; 3. The mastery of form: Beardsley and Joyce; 4. Being disinterested: D. H. Lawrence; 5. Modernist criticism: the battle for culture and the accommodation of the obscene.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
1. Civil society: aesthetics and pornography in the eighteenth century; 2. Victorian obscenities: the new reading public, pornography and Swinburne's sexual aesthetic; 3. The mastery of form: Beardsley and Joyce; 4. Being disinterested: D. H. Lawrence; 5. Modernist criticism: the battle for culture and the accommodation of the obscene.

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