 | Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Adultery in literature; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Adultery -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History; Legal stories English -- History and criticism; American f; Barbara Leckie mines novels, newspapers, and court and parliamentary records to explore how adultery became visible in the public 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. Barbara Leckie is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University. |
