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The author recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors, asking what these often colourful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces.Ladenson, Elisabeth is the author of 'Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita', published 2007 under ISBN 9780801474101 and ISBN 0801474108.
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