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James Joyce’s Ulysses: When Modernism Met the Courtroom
In 1933, James Joyce’s landmark novel Ulysses faced a pivotal obscenity trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, with Judge John Munro Woolsey ultimately ruling that the work was not obscene. The controversy surrounding this stream-of-consciousness masterpiece had been brewing since 1920, when its publication in the literary magazine The Little Review led to a criminal conviction. Woolsey’s decision opened the door to importation and publication of serious literary works that used coarse language or involved sexual subjects. His ruling fundamentally shifted how American courts evaluated literature, emphasizing artistic merit and intent rather than isolated passages.
D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover: The Trial That Changed Britain
Penguin Books was prosecuted in the United Kingdom for publishing D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, with the trial taking place at the Old Bailey between 20 October and 2 November 1960, resulting in a unanimous jury verdict of not guilty. The trial was a test case of the defence of public good provision under section 4 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959, which was defined as a work “in the interests of science,…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-01-13 23:10:00
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