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
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2013
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Author:
Christopher Hilliard |
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American Historical Review
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118
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| Issue |
3
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| Pagination |
653-78
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| Annotation |
Focus on a 1960 trial of Penguin Books for distributing copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and its implications for government efforts to regulate reading. Discusses class dynamics underlying the argument for censorship made at the trial.
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