Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
Contents
Trials of modernism -- "All goals become graves" : The rainbow and wartime censorship: Reception and trial : Lawrence's wartime aesthetic ; Savage rites : The rainbow -- Obscenity and nonreproductive sexuality : Ulysses and the Little review trial: Ulysses in the Little review : a history of publication and censorship ; Peep shows and confessions in "Nausicaa" ; Maternal confessions in "Oxen of the sun" ; "Circe" : bloom on trial ; Freedom and transformation in "Penelope" -- Postwar hysteria : the case of Lady Chatterley's lover: Hysterical Lawrence ; The uses of hysteria ; Lady Chatterley's lover -- "Suppressed readiness" : Orlando and The well of loneliness: The well of loneliness :reception and trial ; The well of loneliness : lesbianism in fiction and history ; Orlando : lesbianism in fictional history ; Coda : between the acts.
