Banned Books and Publishers' Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar.
Archival sources enable us to consider the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, UK legal authorities took a collusive (and cosy) approach to obscenity, moving only to prosecute if the book in question generated publicity or achieved wide sales. The...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 34 - 53 |
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