Scandalous Fictions

Chapter 1 Introduction: the Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere

Chapter 2 The ‘nameless shamelessness’ of Ulysses: Libel and the Law of Literature

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

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

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

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

Chapter 7 Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People: the Novel and the Public Sphere

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

Chapter 9 Toni Morrison’s Beloved: the Scandal that Disturbed Domestic Tranquillity

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

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

Chapter 12 Afterword