著者

佐藤 治夫

出版者

英米文化学会

雑誌

英米文化 (ISSN:09173536)

巻号頁・発行日

no.38, pp.5-30, 2008-03-31

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The present paper reevaluated the significance of the Obscene Publications Act 1857(OPA), or Campbell's Law(An Act for more effectually preventing the Sale of Obscene Books, Pictures, Prints, and other Articles) from the view point of assessing the opposing forces in and out of the British Parliament that influenced the actual law-making process. In good contrast with the first hesitant approach before his submission of OPA, Lord Campbell, the propagator of OPA, is found quite straightforward in pressing his objective, widely supported by the public opinions outside the Houses, to his fellow members of the House, which might have unnecessarily provoked repulsive attitudes from some of them-probably best represented by Lord Lyndhurst, who openly made objections in the House of Lords, referring to the possibility of endangering the British literary works in the process of enforcing OPA. The verbal conflict between the two parties will well be summarised as that of maintaining the standard of decency in society as against the protection of national literature. It is quite noteworthy that the process of law-making itself only promoted the discussion of decency and moral integration, and not the protection of literature.

著者

佐藤 治夫 須田 理恵

出版者

英米文化学会

雑誌

英米文化 (ISSN:09173536)

巻号頁・発行日

no.37, pp.5-23, 2007-03-31

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The authors tried to show that the economical improvements followed by the successful publication and sales of Lady Chatterley's Lover lead to the gradual and important change in D.H. Lawrence's attitude towards his own economical conditions, which may even partly account for his slightly shifted world view, as seen in his later works. Mention is also made to the unpublished memos Memoranda Book, which distinctively shows how Lawrence struggled with the incoming flow of money by the sales of his most notorious novel of his day. His newly expanded income brought about significant changes to his life. Even his exodus from Britain, after the long-term confinement in the United Kingdom because of WWI, would have been impossible without additional income from his various literary activities. The change is quite well illustrated in his Pansies published in 1929, which appearstobe scatteredwithso many uses ofthe word,'money'and itsclosely relatedwords andphrasesinmanyofthepoemscontained. Someofsuchpoemsapparentlyshowthetrail of his thoughts which was changing from contemptuous to condescending ones, especially to people of all classes in the British society in his times. Contrary to the general evaluation of Pansies, the poems are found to be of great value to Lawrencian scholarship especially in the fields of his biographical incidence and poetic works.

著者

佐藤 治夫

出版者

英米文化学会

雑誌

現代英米研究 (ISSN:24330736)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, pp.12-19, 1974-07-01 (Released:2017-09-07)

著者

佐藤 治夫

出版者

英米文化学会

雑誌

英米文化 (ISSN:09173536)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.38, pp.5-30, 2008-03-31 (Released:2017-06-20)

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The present paper reevaluated the significance of the Obscene Publications Act 1857(OPA), or Campbell's Law(An Act for more effectually preventing the Sale of Obscene Books, Pictures, Prints, and other Articles) from the view point of assessing the opposing forces in and out of the British Parliament that influenced the actual law-making process. In good contrast with the first hesitant approach before his submission of OPA, Lord Campbell, the propagator of OPA, is found quite straightforward in pressing his objective, widely supported by the public opinions outside the Houses, to his fellow members of the House, which might have unnecessarily provoked repulsive attitudes from some of them-probably best represented by Lord Lyndhurst, who openly made objections in the House of Lords, referring to the possibility of endangering the British literary works in the process of enforcing OPA. The verbal conflict between the two parties will well be summarised as that of maintaining the standard of decency in society as against the protection of national literature. It is quite noteworthy that the process of law-making itself only promoted the discussion of decency and moral integration, and not the protection of literature.

著者

佐藤 治夫

出版者

応用物理学会分科会日本光学会

雑誌

光学 (ISSN:03896625)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, no.9, pp.537-543, 2004-09-10