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The legal concepts of obscenity underpinning Anderson and Heap's trial go back to a standard first established in the 1868 English case of Regina v.Hicklin. [1] In this case, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn defined the "test of obscenity" as "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands ...
The Little Review continued to publish Ulysses until 1921 when the Post Office seized copies of the magazine and refused to distribute them on the grounds that Ulysses constituted obscene material. As a result, the magazine, Anderson, and Heap went to trial over the Ulysses questionable content.
One Book Called Ulysses, 5 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933), affirmed in United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce (Random House, Inc., Claimant) , 72 F. 705 (1934) is a landmark decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in a case dealing with freedom of expression .
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Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
Copies of the literary journal The Little Review containing episodes from James Joyce's novel Ulysses were seized by the United States Postal Service under the Comstock law. [77] Ulysses was suppressed in 1921 for obscenity, because of a scene that involved masturbation, first published in The Little Review. [78]
Ulysses S. Grant's standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White ...
On top of how moviemaking-by-AI it all is, “Our Little Secret,” directed by the once-promising Stephen Herek (“Mr. Holland’s Opus”), is a cringe-fest. Take the scene where Avery, who has ...