A Matter of Obscenity : The Politics of Censorship in Modern England /

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A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor 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 an...

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Autor principal: Hilliard, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Censorship > Great Britain.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901).
A. P. Herbert.
Amendment.
Arts council.
Attempt.
Barrister.
Blasphemous libel.
Blasphemy law.
C. R. Hewitt.
Cambridge University Press.
Censorship.
Chairman.
Chief constable.
Civil service.
Common law.
Confiscation.
Consideration.
Controversy.
Counsel.
Crime.
Customs.
D. H. Lawrence.
Decriminalization.
Defamation.
Defendant.
Deference.
Director of Public Prosecutions.
E. M. Forster.
England and Wales.
English law.
European Commission of Human Rights.
European Convention on Human Rights.
European Court of Human Rights.
Expert witness.
Fanny Hill.
Film censorship.
Freedom of speech.
Hank Janson.
Hicklin test.
Home Office.
Home Secretary.
Homosexuality.
Immorality.
Imprisonment.
Intention (criminal law).
John Stuart Mill.
Jury.
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Law enforcement.
Lawyer.
Lecture.
Legal Advisor (Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants).
Legislation.
Literacy.
Literary criticism.
Literary merit.
Literature.
Mary Whitehouse.
Mervyn Griffith-Jones.
Morality.
Nationwide Festival of Light.
Newspaper.
Novelist.
Obscene Publications Act 1959.
Obscene Publications Acts.
Obscenity.
On Liberty.
Pamphlet.
Paperback.
Penguin Books.
Police.
Politician.
Politics.
Pornographic film.
Pornographic magazine.
Pornography.
Post Office Act.
Precedent.
Private member's bill.
Private prosecution.
Prosecutor.
Prostitution.
Public morality.
Publication.
Publishing.
Recommendation (European Union).
Roy Jenkins.
Sedition.
Shame.
Solicitor.
Statute.
T. S. Eliot.
Teach-in.
The Juror.
The Well of Loneliness.
Underground press.
V.
Victorian era.
Wolfenden report.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • A note on the type

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