“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...
| Published in: | American Historical Review Vol. 118; no. 3; pp. 653 - 679 |
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Jun2013
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