• Contents


• Foreword vii


• 1. Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and Pleasure 3


• 2. True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman à Clef 21


• 3. Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud 43


• 4. Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction 69


• 5. The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel 89


• 6. The Coterie as Commondity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys, and the Business of Revenge 124


• Notes 167


• Select Bibliography of Modernist Romans à Clef 193


• Index 197

Sean Latham is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the Director of the Modernist Journals Project and the author of Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel and Joyce's Modernism.

The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman ¿lef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism.