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method of unveiling the subconscious mind, which prompted one of the judges to ask him to "speak in a language that the court could understand". The next witness was
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was a "beautiful piece of work in no way capable of corrupting the minds of young girls". The editors were found guilty under laws associated with the
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he would have consulted a lawyer first—and not published it". The final witness was English novelist, lecturer, and critic
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Another important obscenity trial occurred 1960 in Britain, when the full unexpurgated edition of
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that the novel could be published in the United States without fear of prosecution.
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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are considered by many to be among the highest achievements in Western art.
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Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius
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of 1873, which made it illegal to circulate materials deemed
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My Thirty Years' War: An Autobiography by Margaret Anderson
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Index

Artistic value

William Shakespeare
work of art
literature
1921 US trial
Ulysses
The Little Review
John Quinn
Philip Moeller
Theatre Guild
Freudian
Scofield Thayer
The Dial
John Cowper Powys
Comstock Act
obscene
U.S. mail
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Penguin Books
trial of Penguin
Obscene Publications Act 1959
obscenity
Roy Jenkins
E. M. Forster
Helen Gardner
Richard Hoggart
Raymond Williams

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