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Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914
Barbara Leckie
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Description for Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914
Hardback. Barbara Leckie mines novels, newspapers, and court and parliamentary records to explore how adultery became visible in the pubic sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century and how the history of the Victorian novel is revised when the culture's concern with adultery and censorship is brought into focus. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
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 implicit constraints imposed upon literary production. If we find no English Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, Barbara Leckie nevertheless demonstrates that adultery preoccupied English culture during this period. After the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 was passed, adultery was prominently discussed in the Divorce Court. ... Read more
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 implicit constraints imposed upon literary production. If we find no English Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, Barbara Leckie nevertheless demonstrates that adultery preoccupied English culture during this period. After the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 was passed, adultery was prominently discussed in the Divorce Court. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Series
New Cultural Studies
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812234985
SKU
V9780812234985
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About Barbara Leckie
Barbara Leckie is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University.
Reviews for Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914
A record of the cultural and historical context within which English novelists took up the subject of adultery in the later nineteenth century. . . . As a study in cultural development, this volume is excellent. -Choice