Authors: Barbara Leckie
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-14 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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 enough to defy the powerful