ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Child Pornography, Royal Assent, George Steiner
Document Summary
1958 legalised in canada. the stigma surrounding it naturally made it more famous. Was on the bestsellers list in 58 and 59. it had been put on a secret list of novels circulated among customs officials to be banned when it was being imported from paris. Then it began to be imported from america. Child pornography law- prohibit the representation of something that is in itself a crime. Illegal for an adult- over 18- to have sex with someone below the legal age for consent (now 16, used to be 14). When it comes to written material, even to counsel sex or even hint at it as the dominant characteristic" is illegal. Lolita might have artistic merit, but it hardly does any public good. Nobakov himself said, lolita has no moral in tow. Its only job is aesthetic bliss. " most readers of lolita are struggling to answer the question that nobakov himself is not interested in.
