This book is a study of obscene print culture in nineteenth-century Britain. Colette Colligan argues that nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology,
From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberti
Editors Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley (both: English and print culture, Simon Fraser U., Canada) provide an introductory essay in which they explain the scope of the volume and state: "Our brin
