How it is, asks Ladenson (French and comparative literature, Columbia U.), that so many literary works once designated as obscene have ended up on required reading lists. She looks at nine works that
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories ha
For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction—his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the
