Download or read book Culture and Adultery written by Barbara Leckie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-07-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Leckie mines novels, newspapers, and court and parliamentary records to explore how adultery became visible in the public sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century and how the history of the Victorian novel is revised when the culture's concern with adultery and censorship is brought into focus.