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Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist
Jay A. Gertzman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DSB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary “pirate” for issuing unauthorised editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals, who eventually vilified Roth on two continents.
Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognise good contemporary writing and make it ... Read more
Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary “pirate” for issuing unauthorised editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals, who eventually vilified Roth on two continents.
Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognise good contemporary writing and make it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813061320
SKU
V9780813061320
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About Jay A. Gertzman
Jay A. Gertzman, professor emeritus of English at Mansfield University, USA, is author of three books, including Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920–1940.
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