book-chapter · 2013
Poison More Deadly than Prussic Acid: Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act (1850–1885)
The chapter analyses the creation and definition of obscenity in the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 and the ‘Hicklin Ruling’ of 1868. It considers the parl...
23 citationsDOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697564.003.0002