Scandalous Fictions

1. Introduction: the Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere
Jago Morrison, Susan Watkins

2. The ‘nameless shamelessness’ of Ulysses: Libel and the Law of Literature
Sean Latham

3. ’The aristocracy of intellect’: Inversion and Inheritance in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness
Susan Watkins

4. The Law and the Profits: the Case of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Fiona Becket

5. ’You Reckon Folks Really Act Like That?’: Horror Films and the Work of Popular Culture in Richard Wright’s Native Son
James Smethurst

6. Scandalous for being Scandalous: ‘monstrous huge fuck[s]’ and ‘slambanging big sodomies’ in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
R. J. Ellis

7. Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People: the Novel and the Public Sphere
Jago Morrison

8. ’Precious Gift/Piece of Shit’: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and the Revenge of History
Shailja Sharma

9. Toni Morrison’s Beloved: the Scandal that Disturbed Domestic Tranquillity
Marilyn Sanders Mobley

10. Helen Darville, The Hand that Signed the Paper: Who is ‘Helen Demidenko’?
Sue Vice

11. J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal
Kai Easton

12. Afterword
Jago Morrison, Susan Watkins

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, North American Literature, Literary Theory