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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Leckie, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: New Cultural Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 11 illus.

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. Very few writers, conventional wisdom has it, were bold...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Censorship and Adultery
• 1. The Democracy of Print
• 2. Columns of Scandal
• 3. An Undercurrent of the Body
• 4. A National Habit of Repression
• 5. A Good Read
• Conclusion: The Narrative of a Waking Body
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Acknowledgments
• Index