UID:
almafu_9961633102202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
0-691-22610-5
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0-691-22611-3
Series Statement:
Princeton scholarship online
Content:
For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover,' the prosecutor asked the jury, 'Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?' Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
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Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Obscenity, Literacy, and the Franchise, 1857-1918 -- Chapter 2. The Censorship versus the Moderns, 1918-1945 -- Chapter 3. Protecting Literature, Suppressing Pulp, 1945-1959 -- Chapter 4. The Lady Chatterley's Lover Trial, 1960 -- Chapter 5. The Liberal Hour, 1961-1969 -- Chapter 6. Subversion from Underground, 1970-1971 -- Chapter 7. Campaigners and Litigants, 1972-1977 -- Chapter 8. Philosophers and Pluralists, 1977-1979 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscript Sources -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-691-19798-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780691226118
