num_pages: 248
description: A series of pen-portraits of the men who helped to establish those rights which we tend to take for granted: freedom of publication and, in general, freedom to hold and express unpopular views.The cases which Arthur Calder-Marshall cites span almost the whole of the nineteenth century, ranging from William Home's indictment for blasphemy shortly after the Napoleonic Wars to Havelock Ellis's condemnation without trial for "uttering a filthy, bawdy and obscene libel, to wit, Sexual Inversion.
language: English
title: Lewd, Blasphemous and Obscene: being the trials and tribulations of sundry founding fathers of today's alternative societies
titlecomplete: Lewd, Blasphemous and Obscene: being the trials and tribulations of sundry founding fathers of today's alternative societies
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Hutchinson