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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.

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"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 *

Culture and Adultery

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 7/28/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780812234985
      978-0812234985
      ISBN-10 0812234987

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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 *

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