Table of Contents for
The Novel and the Obscene
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Novel and the Symbolic: Sexual Logic in American Obscenity Law and Literature, 1900-1940
PART I: KNOWING
1. Guilty Reading: Stupidity and Sex in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
2. Ultimate Delicacy: Propriety and False Femininity in Willa Cather's The Professor's House
PART II: SEEING
3. Counting as Decent: Obscenity and Masculinity in William Faulkner's Sanctuary
4. A Gulf of Silence: Richard Wright's Native Son and Obscenity's Racial Demand
Appendix: Legal Cases Cited
Notes
Worked Cited
Index