A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England

by Christopher Hilliard

Book Overview

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain

For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691197989
• ISBN13: 9780691197982
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"