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Word Crimes : Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
Word Crimes Blasphemy Culture and Literature in NineteenthCentury England
Author: Joss Marsh
In 1883 the editor of a penny newspaper stood trial three times for the "obsolete" crime of blasphemy. The editor was G. W. Foote, the paper was the Freethinker, and the trial was the defining event of the decade. Foote's "martyrdom" completed blasphemy's nineteenth-century transformation from a religious offense to a class and cultural c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226506906
ISBN-10: 0226506908
Publication Date: 8/15/1998
Pages: 362
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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