“Is It a Book That You Would Even Wish Your Wife or Your Servants to Read?” Obscenity Law and the Politics of Reading in Modern England.
The article focuses on the history of obscenity law in Great Britain and the 1960 obscenity trial that sought to charge publishing company Penguin Books with violating the 1959 Obscene Publications Act by printing the sexually explicit book "Lady Chatterley's Lover," by D. H. Lawrence. The author ex...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 118; no. 3; pp. 653 - 679 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2013
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the history of obscenity law in Great Britain and the 1960 obscenity trial that sought to charge publishing company Penguin Books with violating the 1959 Obscene Publications Act by printing the sexually explicit book "Lady Chatterley's Lover," by D. H. Lawrence. The author examines how English obscenity law targeted specific social classes of women and the working class, explores the politics of reading in Great Britain during the 20th century, and discusses the how cultural change can impact the notion of freedom of speech. |
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