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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Cultivation of Inner Life and the Dangers of Reading 1
4. Chapter 1. Inventing Fragile Readers 14
5. Chapter 2. Dubious Sources, Dangerous Spaces, Porous Geographies 56
6. Chapter 3. Defending Forbidden Texts 94
7. Chapter 4. Liberalism and the Codification of Obscenity Laws in the 1830s and 1840s 127
8. Chapter 5. Redefining Obscenity in an Era of “Progress,” 1848–1880 162
9. Conclusion 206
10. Notes 213
11. Bibliography 237
12. Index 253
13. Acknowledgments 257