Schedule

January 9: Aesthetics/Ethics

Handout containing selections from Book 2 and 10 of Plato’s Republic, the “Preface” to Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, and poems by Philip Larkin

January 14: Obscenity and the Law

Boyce, Bret. “Obscenity and Community Standards.” Yale Journal of International Law 33.2 (2008): 299-368.
Koppelman, Andrew. “Does Obscenity Cause Moral Harm?” Columbia Law Review 5.105 (2005): 1635-79.
Sigel, Lisa Z. “Censorship in Inter-War Britain: Obscenity, Spectacle, and the Workings of the Liberal State.” Journal of Social History 45.1 (2011): 61-83.

January 23-30: Madame Bovary

Haynes, Christine. “The Politics of Publishing During The Second Empire: The Trial of Madame Bovary Revisited.” French Politics, Culture & Society 23.2 (2005): 1-27.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Trans. Margaret Mauldon. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.
Ladenson, Elisabeth. “Gustave Flaubert: Emma Bovary Goes to Hollywood.” Dirt for Art’s Sake. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. 17-46.

Alcoff, Linda. “The Problem of Speaking For Others.” Cultural Critique 20 (1991): 5-32.

February 6-13: The Well of Loneliness

Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008. (The book is also available online here if you are having trouble finding it.)
Ladenson, Elisabeth. “Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Prussic Acid.” Dirt for Art’s Sake. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. 107-130.
Knauer, Nancy J. “Homosexuality as Contagion: From The Well of Loneliness to the Boy Scouts.” Hofstra Law Review 29 (2000): 401-501. (You are only required to read: pp. 403-410, 422-438, 440-450, 498-501.)

February 20: Reading Week

 

February 27-March 5: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Ladenson, Elisabeth. “D.H. Lawrence: Sexual Intercourse Begins.” Dirt for Art’s Sake. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. 131-156.
Lawrence, D.H.. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Ed. Michael Squires. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
McDonald, Peter D. “The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State.” English Studies in Africa 47.1 (2004): 31-46.

March 12-19: Lolita

Goldman, Eric. “”Knowing” Lolita: Sexual Deviance and Normality in Nabokov’s Lolita.Nabokov Studies 8.1 (2004): 87-104.
Ladenson, Elisabeth. “Vladimir Nabokov: Lolitigation.” Dirt for Art’s Sake. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. 187-220.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.

March 26: The Little Sisters Case

Benedet, Janine. “Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Minister of Justice: Sex Equality and the Attack on R. v. Butler.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 39 (2001): 187-206. 
Ryder, Bruce. “The Little Sisters Case, Administrative Censorship, and Obscenity Law.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 39 (2001): 207-227.
Weir, Lorraine. “”Making Up Stories”: Law and Imagination in Contemporary Canada.” English Studies in Canada 29.3 (2003): 25-33.

April 5: Banned Film Festival 

Come to class prepared to share some clips of banned films and to speak about them! We’ll have food at this class so do attend and enjoy yourself.