Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 by Barbara Leckie

Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914

New Cultural Studies

Barbara Leckie

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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. ...

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