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A Matter of Obscenity - The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Hardcover)
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A Matter of Obscenity - The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Hardcover)
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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 Lady Chatterley's
Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would
even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard
traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to
Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and
a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of
major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday
censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary
modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and
American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the
thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and
politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions
of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents
of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with
changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on
extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book
reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to
confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to
feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.
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