The Trial of Gustav Graef : Art, Sex, and Scandal in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany.

Cover -- THE TRIAL OF GUSTAV GRAEF -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- A Society in Transformation -- A Culture of Honor -- Filth and Trash -- A Note on Method -- CHAPTER ONE | THE RISE AND FALL OF GUSTAV GRAEF -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- From Obscurity to Respectability -- In Pursuit of Beauty -- A Change of Fortune -- CHAPTER TWO | THE TRIAL AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE -- Venue and Cast -- Disorder in the Court -- Love Poetry and The Fairy Tale -- The Graef Trial and "New Journalism" -- A Verdict, but Not an Ending -- CHAPTER THREE | ARTISTS AND PHILISTINES -- Naturalism and Idealism -- The "Model Market" -- Three Pamphlets -- The Artists' Declaration -- The Revolution and Its Victims -- CHAPTER FOUR | WOMEN'S VOICES / WOMEN'S SILENCES -- Prostitution and the "Fallen Woman" in Imperial Germany -- Constructing a Fairy Tale Model -- The Graef Trial and German Feminism -- Assuming Femininity -- CHAPTER FIVE | STORIES ABOUT OTHERS -- A Dark and Uncivilized World -- A Case of Madness or Dissimulation? -- Defiance and Agency -- A Powerful Example of the Jewish Question -- CHAPTER SIX | A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CRISIS -- New Codes, New Problems -- In the Throes of Perjury Fever -- Art and Obscenity -- Closing the Courtroom -- From Lex Graef to Lex Heinze -- CHAPTER SEVEN | POWER CONFLICTS IN THE COURT ROOM -- The Almighty Prosecutor -- The Absolute Discretion ofJudges -- A Lawyers' World -- There Are Still Juries in Berlin! -- EPILOGUE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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