...Mollie Kervick [email protected] The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable , by Valente Joseph Backus Margot Gayle . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2021 . 305 pages. Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022...

... subjectivity—a way of telling one’s own scandalous story through someone else’s words, even words intended as hostile, discovering poetic and sexual pleasures where others see only anxiety and dread. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 The Changing Light at Sandover Cold War sexuality queer...

..., as was the case with I am Curious (Yellow)—which Rosset’s company distributed—it was due more to scandal than percipience on Rosset’s part. Or, to be both more and less generous, one might say that Rosset had an exceptional eye for the scandalous and its marketability. And the scandalous is precisely what...

... celebrity— can easily be seen as the cliché against which these movements defined themselves.6 From his debut, Capote offered a performance of shock, spectacle, and scandal that was antithetical to the homophile movement, which was preoccupied with the quest for homosexual men and women...

... of a difference by linking homosexuality with scandal, criminality, and shame. Ironically, for the most part the result was similar to the result in the case of James. Silence—not that of secrecy but of shame—was what charac- terized the discourse on Wilde in the decades after his death. But Walshe has...

... because it travels so deeply into the worlds of the police, of suburban developers, and of the Catholic hierarchy, the novel is actually as explicit about the political and economic circuitry of LA’s power structure as almost any Noir mystery one can think of. This is particularly because of the scandal...

... of her spousal rites. (304–08) This firm, unequivocal code of conduct is altered slightly but decisively in Butler’s synopsis, where she says: “I should be scandalized myself if I saw any girl going about with a stranger, while her father and mother were 382 Butler’s The Authoress...

... a small scandal by leaving his longtime editor and friend, Liz Calder, for the agent Andrew Wylie, who could promise him con­ tracts worth milHons. Wernick has shown how Rushdie himself inevitably participates in the circulating flows of capitalism—“There is no hors- promotion,” he...

... appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in April of that year, both narratives featuring a first and second wife competing for the same man’s attention. Although Larsen seems not to have resubmitted her manuscript for publication—likely discouraged by the Knopf rejection and the recent plagiarism scandal...

... and the postmodern in such an estrus of contradiction is scandalously perilous. Yet for Woodland, “the difficulty of making such a distinction is, perhaps, an indication of the ways in which the poem resists categorization as postmodern” and would accordingly make the issue of closure “at least according...

...). The projection of a half-educated, sprawling, and undifferentiated public led to fears not only for the intellectual but also for the political health of the nation, with newspaper proprietors seen as stoking the appetite of “the public” for scandal, commercialism, and catchwords...

... of docu­ mentary materials in her 1938 sequence The Book of the Dead, which deals with the notorious Gauley Bridge silicosis scandal of the early to mid- 1930s; Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West poems from North and South; Langston Hughes’s assemblage of socially coded verbal riffs, Montage of a Dream...

... article in Social Text, Guillory argued that the resulting scandal highlighted the “spontaneous philosophy of the critics”: the assumption that an antirealist epistemology (alternatively expressed as antifounda- tionalism or relativism) is a requisite for any progressive politics...

.... Among the guests was black author Zora Neale Hurston. In order to avoid the scandal that would ensue if she arrived in the main lobby, Hurston crept up the back stairs to Rawlings’s suite, dressed as a maid. An eye-witness account of this meeting opens Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship...

... from the Jewish financier (and soon-to-be villain of the Panama scandal) Cornélius Hertz before publicizing the fact in his newspaper, L’Aurore . Bernanos himself would eventually break with Franco (and Fascism) and back the Resistance during the war, but he subsequently insisted...

... that manifest impairment, exposure is another way to dissolve the self and affirm an alternative life expressed. Similarly, an exposed impairment is not a transgression (a response to ableism) but scandal” (123). That is, the radicalism of making impairment visible derives not from the fact...

... and rapidity issued in works that to viewers accustomed to realism seemed like scandalously unfinished sketches. The movement famously got its name in 1874 when, during its first group show, the critic Louis Leroy scoffed at Monet’s “Impression: Sunrise,” titling his review in Le Charivari “The Exhibition...

... disapproving mother. She reacted furiously to learning of his affair with Kimon Friar, insisting on therapy and a complete breakup. Later she destroyed her son’s letters from friends in the near paranoid belief that they might cause a scandal. She claimed implausibly that Merrill’s father was going to hire...

... of the Abderite nothing is more real” (138). The achievement of this peace is part of the general “scandal” of Murphy’s time at the Mercyseat and underpins the scarcely covert political critique whose schematic outline runs as follows. Under the administration of the Clinch twins, MMM is a corrupt, nepotistic...

... epigrams. The first suggests that, in the book of nature and Western culture, life originates in the male-female dyad. The second suggests that the end of life is apocalyptic in one of two ways. Topically, rev­ elations occur in the reports of sex scandals in the late-Victorian press. More...