Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 - Barbara Leckie - Google Books

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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…