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obscenity

• In obscenity: Obscenity laws in the 18th and 19th centuries
  …seditious libel for his periodical North Briton and with obscene libel for his poem An Essay on Woman, a parody of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man. Prosecutions for obscenity in other European countries also betrayed a merging of moral and political concerns. Perhaps the most celebrated obscenity trial in…
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Wilkes

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  In John Wilkes: The North Briton.
  In 1762, as author of a political newspaper, the North Briton, he began to give rancorous journalistic support to Earl Temple’s campaign against the ministry of Lord Bute, not hesitating to evoke popular English hatred for the Scots and to write libellous innuendos…
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