Description: Outrages by Naomi Wolf The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America illuminates a dramatic history - how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to reverberations lasting to our day. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ legal rights. In Outrages, Naomi Wolf chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ legal rights, despite writing at a time when anything interpreted as homoerotic could be used as evidence in trials leading to harsh sentences under British law. Wolfs book is extremely relevant today for what it has to say about the vital importance of freedom of speech and the courageous roles of publishers and booksellers in an era of growing calls for censorship and ever-escalating state violations of privacy. At a time when the American Library Association, the Guardian, and other observers document national and global efforts from censoring LGBTQ+ voices in libraries to using anti-trans and homophobic sentiments cynically to win elections, the story of how such hateful efforts evolved from the past, to reach down to us now, is more important than ever. Drawing on the work of a range of scholars of censorship and of LGBTQ+ legal history, Wolf depicts how state censorship, and state prosecution of same-sex sexuality, played out-decades before the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde-shadowing the lives of people who risked in ever-changing, targeted ways scrutiny by the criminal justice system. She shows how legal persecutions of writers, and of men who loved men affected Symonds and his contemporaries, all the while, Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass was illicitly crossing the Atlantic and finding its way into the hands of readers who reveled in the American poets celebration of freedom, democracy, and unfettered love. Inspired by Whitman, Symonds kept trying, stubbornly, to find a way to express his message-that love and sex between men were not morbid and deviant, but natural and even ennobling. He wrote a strikingly honest secret memoir written in code to embed hidden messages-which he embargoed for a generation after his death - and wrote the essay A Problem in Modern Ethics that was secretly shared in his lifetime and is now rightfully understood as one of the first gay rights manifestos in the English language. Equal parts insightful historical critique and page-turning literary detective story, Wolfs Outrages is above all an uplifting testament to the triumph of romantic love. Flap Sobering and timely Peter Parker, The Literary Review The bestselling author explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writers refusal to stay silenced . Outrages brings us the story of the English poet and memoirist John Addington Symonds, and shows how a law created in the mid-1800s led to reverberations lasting to our day. The Obscene Publication Act of 1857 effectively defined dissent and morality, deviancy and normalcy and if writers, editors, printers and booksellers did not uphold the conventional morals of society they faced serious repercussions. Wolf depicts the ways this censorship played out, decades before the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde, among a bohemian group of sexual dissidents, including Swinburne, Dante and Christina Rossetti - and Walt Whitman in America - and in particular, John Addington Symonds, who fell in love with Whitmans homoerotic voice in Leaves of Grass. Outrages shines a brilliant light on Symonds secret memoir and the essay of his that is understood to be one of the first gay rights manifestos in the west. John Addington Symonds believed, hoped and wrote about a future freedom to love, speak and write without fear. [A] long-overdue literary investigation into censorship and the life of a tormented trailblazer, a prescient father of the modern gay rights movement Oprah Magazine Remarkable and moving Larry Kramer, author of Faggots and The Normal Heart Author Biography Naomi Wolf conpleted a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford in 2015. She taught Victorian Studies as a Visiting Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, received a Barnard College Research Fellowship at the Center for Women and Gender, was recipient of a Rothermere American Institute Research Fellowship for her work on John Addington Symonds at the University of Oxford, and taught advocacy literature at George Washington University as a visiting lecturer. Shes lectured widely on the themes in Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, presenting lectures on Symonds and the themes in Outrages at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, at Balliol College, Oxford, and to the undergraduates in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She lectured about Symonds and Outrages for the first LGBTQ Colloquium at Rhodes House. Dr Wolf was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale graduate. Shes written eight non-fiction bestsellers about womens issues and civil liberties, and is the CEO of DailyClout.io, a news site and legislative database in which US state and Federal legislation is shared digitally and read and explained weekly. She holds an honorary degree from Sweet Briar College. She and her family live in New York City. Review An important look at how the Obscene Publications Act helped usher in the states purported need and right to police speech - StylistWith precision and sensitivity, Naomi Wolf traces how the state came to police the private sphere; she brings into the light the lives of those whose resistance to this brutality was a beacon for the future. Outrages is a remarkable, revelatory bookOutrages reveals a powerful history of how science, law and culture intersected to suppress and silence sexual expressionA heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . . Outrages is revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history . . . [a] remarkable book - Harpers Bazaar Long Description The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth , Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ legal rights. In Outrages, Naomi Wolf chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ legal rights, despite writing at a time when anything interpreted as homoerotic could be used as evidence in trials leading to harsh sentences under British law. Wolfs book is extremely relevant today for what it has to say about the vital importance of freedom of speech and the courageous roles of publishers and booksellers in an era of growing calls for censorship and ever-escalating state violations of privacy. At a time when the American Library Association, the Guardian , and other observers document national and global efforts from censoring LGBTQ+ voices in libraries to using anti-trans and homophobic sentiments cynically to win elections, the story of how such hateful efforts evolved from the past, to reach down to us now, is more important than ever. Drawing on the work of a range of scholars of censorship and of LGBTQ+ legal history, Wolf depicts how state censorship, and state prosecution of same-sex sexuality, played out-decades before the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde-shadowing the lives of people who risked in ever-changing, targeted ways scrutiny by the criminal justice system. She shows how legal persecutions of writers, and of men who loved men affected Symonds and his contemporaries, all the while, Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass was illicitly crossing the Atlantic and finding its way into the hands of readers who reveled in the American poets celebration of freedom, democracy, and unfettered love. Inspired by Whitman, Symonds kept trying, stubbornly, to find a way to express his message-that love and sex between men were not morbid and deviant, but natural and even ennobling. He wrote a strikingly honest secret memoir written in code to embed hidden messages-which he embargoed for a generation after his death - and wrote the essay A Problem in Modern Ethics that was secretly shared in his lifetime and is now rightfully understood as one of the first gay rights manifestos in the English language. Equal parts insightful historical critique and page-turning literary detective story, Wolfs Outrages is above all an uplifting testament to the triumph of romantic love. Review Quote An important look at how the Obscene Publications Act helped usher in the states purported need and right to police speech - StylistWith precision and sensitivity, Naomi Wolf traces how the state came to police the private sphere; she brings into the light the lives of those whose resistance to this brutality was a beacon for the future. Outrages is a remarkable, revelatory book Outrages reveals a powerful history of how science, law and culture intersected to suppress and silence sexual expressionA heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . . Outrages is revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history . . . [a] remarkable book - Harpers Bazaar Promotional "Headline" The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth , Vagina and The End of America illuminates a dramatic history - how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to reverberations lasting to our day. Details ISBN0349004110 Author Naomi Wolf Short Title Outrages Language English ISBN-10 0349004110 ISBN-13 9780349004112 Subtitle Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love Pages 384 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2020-11-19 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations approx. 12 b/w Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-11-19 Imprint Virago Press Ltd DEWEY 306 Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-01-26 AU Release Date 2021-01-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130568178;
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ISBN-13: 9780349004112
Book Title: Outrages
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Year: 2020
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