Literary Obscenities

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Getting Off the Page

2. How to Misbehave as aBehaviorist (if You’re Wyndham Lewis)

3. Erskine Caldwell, Smut, and the Paperbacking of Obscenity

4. Sin, Sex, and Segregation in Lillian Smith’s Silent South

Conclusion: Off the Page

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“[Bachman] offers a historical perspective on modernism and literary naturalism and shrewdly covers the relationship between what is on the page and how readers respond to it.”

—D. C. Greenwood, Choice