Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control - Hardcover

Fellion, Matthew; Inglis, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712356894 ISBN 13: 9780712356893

Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders, school governors, librarians, teachers, parents, students, editors and publishers. Censored deals with some of the most contentious and fascinating cases, including works now praised as literary masterpieces, such as James Joyce's Ulysses and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; as well as a troubling book about assassination that was implicated in a murder case. The books in this comprehensive study have been chosen to showcase the variety of suppressed literature, the methods and consequences of censorship, and landmarks in the history of free speech.

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Katherine Inglis is Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on censorship and nineteenth-century literature. Matthew Fellion is a writer and independent scholar. His interests include the history of reading and the nineteenth-century realist novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: British Library Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0712356894
• ISBN 13: 9780712356893
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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