A01=Joss Marsh
Author_Joss Marsh
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226506913
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 1998
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. This is a reconstructed account of blasphemy in Victorian England, retelling the forgotten stories of more than 200 working-class blasphemers, such as Foote, whose stubborn refusal to silence their "hooligan" voices helped secure the present right to speak and write freely, and whose "martyrdom" transformed blasphemy from a religious offence into a class and cultural crime.
