The First Trial of William Hone, on an Ex-officio Information
The First Trial of William Hone, on an Ex-officio Information

Author: William Hone

Publisher:

Published: 1817

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Hone was tried for profane libel for publishing a political parody of the Anglican Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer. Hone readapted John Wilkes' eighteenth century manuscript. Cf. M. Wood, Radical satire and print culture, 1790-1822, pp. 114-121, 272-290.

Blasphemy in Modern Britain
Blasphemy in Modern Britain

Author: David S. Nash

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0429537468

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Originally published in 1999, this book deals with the cultural and legal debates which have counterposed the right to free speech and the need to protect Christian sensibilities in Britain from the time of the French Revolution to the present day. Central to the book is a close study of the content and public reception of the anti-Christian literature of the 19th century associated with the names G.W.Foote and J.W. Gott, the Freethinker and The Truthseeker. David Nash here also examines a variety of critical-theoretical approaches to blasphemy and blasphemous writing, including postmodernism and the work of Foucault and Said. The book concludes with a detailed examination of 20th-century blasphemy cases, up to and including the Gay News case, The Last Temptation of Christ and Visions of Ecstasy.