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Part 3: Streets and Obscenity
Lynda Nead
Description: Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
Obscenity was the brash, new product of Victorian London. For many legislators and moral campaigners in the period, indecent books and images were a form of cultural poison...
Author
Lynda Nead
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2000 by Lynda Nead
Related print edition pages: pp.149-215
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00345.4
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23360
Chapter subject tags:London (England)--History--19th centuryUrbanization--Great BritainObscenity (Aesthetics)Painting, Victorian--Great Britain

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