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Culture and Adultery : The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 /
Adultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adultery--indeed, of all explicit representations of sexuality--in turn made censorship for obscene libel unnecessary. Very few writers, conventional wisdom has it, were bo...
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Censorship and Adultery
- The Democracy of Print: The Mid-Victorian Censorship Debates
- Columns of Scandal: The Divorce Court Journalism Debates
- An Undercurrent of the Body: The Sensation Novel Debates
- A National Habit of Repression: Henry James's Negotiation of Adultery in The Golden Bowl
- A Good Read: Ford Madox Ford's A Call and The Good Soldier
- Conclusion: The Narrative of a Waking Body.