2004

Ramona Naddaff

  • Assistant Professor
  • University of California, Berkeley

Project

Censorship and the Novel: Case Studies in the Politics of Reading in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France, England, and America

Program

ACLS Fellowship Program

Department

Rhetoric Department

Named Award

ACLS/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow named award

Abstract

Censorship and the Novel: Case Studies in the Politics of Reading examines the literary censorship cases of authors who have figured crucially in the modern and post-modern Western canonical tradition and have made important and innovative contributions to the form and popularization of the literary genre of the novel: Sade, G. Flaubert, D.H. Lawrence, J. Joyce, B. Vian, V. Nabokov, and K. Vonnegut. Based on literary, legal and historical archival research, as well as close readings of the novels and legal trials, Censorship and the Novel investigates the changing relationships between literature and law in order to understand why and how literary censorship trials produce and incite public debate on the function, role, and definition of literature.