TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hilliard,Christopher
TI  - A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England 
SN  - 9780691226118
U1  - 363.31094209/03 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A. P. Herbert
KW  - Amendment
KW  - Arts council
KW  - Attempt
KW  - Barrister
KW  - Blasphemous libel
KW  - Blasphemy law
KW  - C. R. Hewitt
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Chairman
KW  - Chief constable
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Common law
KW  - Confiscation
KW  - Consideration
KW  - Controversy
KW  - Counsel
KW  - Crime
KW  - Customs
KW  - D. H. Lawrence
KW  - Decriminalization
KW  - Defamation
KW  - Defendant
KW  - Deference
KW  - Director of Public Prosecutions
KW  - E. M. Forster
KW  - England and Wales
KW  - English law
KW  - European Commission of Human Rights
KW  - European Convention on Human Rights
KW  - European Court of Human Rights
KW  - Expert witness
KW  - Fanny Hill
KW  - Film censorship
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - Hank Janson
KW  - Hicklin test
KW  - Home Office
KW  - Home Secretary
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Immorality
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Intention (criminal law)
KW  - John Stuart Mill
KW  - Jury
KW  - Lady Chatterley's Lover
KW  - Last Exit to Brooklyn
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - Lawyer
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Legal Advisor (Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants)
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary merit
KW  - Literature
KW  - Mary Whitehouse
KW  - Mervyn Griffith-Jones
KW  - Morality
KW  - Nationwide Festival of Light
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Novelist
KW  - Obscene Publications Act 1959
KW  - Obscene Publications Acts
KW  - Obscenity
KW  - On Liberty
KW  - Pamphlet
KW  - Paperback
KW  - Penguin Books
KW  - Police
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Pornographic film
KW  - Pornographic magazine
KW  - Pornography
KW  - Post Office Act
KW  - Precedent
KW  - Private member's bill
KW  - Private prosecution
KW  - Prosecutor
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Public morality
KW  - Publication
KW  - Publishing
KW  - Recommendation (European Union)
KW  - Roy Jenkins
KW  - Sedition
KW  - Shame
KW  - Solicitor
KW  - Statute
KW  - T. S. Eliot
KW  - Teach-in
KW  - The Juror
KW  - The Well of Loneliness
KW  - Underground press
KW  - V
KW  - Victorian era
KW  - Wolfenden report
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Obscenity, Literacy, and the Franchise, 1857–1918 --; Chapter 2 The Censorship versus the Moderns, 1918–1945 --; Chapter 3 Protecting Literature, Suppressing Pulp, 1945–1959 --; Chapter 4 The Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial, 1960 --; Chapter 5 The Liberal Hour, 1961–1969 --; Chapter 6 Subversion from Underground, 1970–1971 --; Chapter 7 Campaigners and Litigants, 1972–1977 --; Chapter 8 Philosophers and Pluralists, 1977–1979 --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Manuscript Sources --; Index --; A note on the type; restricted access
N2  - A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor 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, the prosecutor asked the jury in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, "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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691226118?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691226118
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691226118/original
ER  -