Word Crimes

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  • Word Crimes Book Detail

  • Author : Joss Marsh
  • Release Date : 1998-08-15
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 452
  • ISBN 13 : 9780226506913
  • File Size : 31,31 MB

Word Crimes by Joss Marsh PDF Summary

Book Description: In 1883 newspaper editor G.W. Foote stood trial three times for blasphemy. Here Joss Marsh reconstructs the forgotten cases of more than 200 working-class "blasphemers" in Victorian England, whose stubborn refusal to silence their "hooligan" voices, along with Foote, helped secure our rights to speak and write freely today. 22 photos.

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