5 The Anatomy of Blackmail

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1 The General Argument 1
5. 2 Status and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century 22
6. 3 Sticks and Stones: The Law of Defamation 41
7. 4 The Victorian Compromise: Slippage and Control in the Moral Laws 63
8. 5 The Anatomy of Blackmail 81
9. 6 Good Women, Bad Women: Seduction, Breach of Promise, and Related Matters 101
10. 7 Censorship: Its Rise and Fall 140
11. 8 Into the Twentieth Century 175
12. 9 Privacy and Reputation in the Late Twentieth Century 213
13. 10 Defamation in Contemporary Times 235
14. 11 A Summing Up—And a Cautious Look at the Future 257
15. Notes 273
16. Index 331