Writing and censorship in Britain. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Hyland, Neil Sammells.
• Editors: Hyland, Paul, 1953-; Sammells, Neil
• Contents: Notes on the contributors Acknowledgements 1. Writing and censorship: an introduction Neil Sammells Chronology 2. Censorship and the 1587 ‘Holinshed’s’ Chronicles Annabel Patterson 3. ‘Those who else would turn all upside-down’: censorship and the assize sermon, 1660-1720 Barbara White 4. ‘All run now into Politicks’: theatre censorship during the Exclusion crisis, 1679-81 Janet Clare 5. Richard Steele: scandal and sedition Paul Hyland 6. John Gay: censoring the censors Calhoun Winton 7. ‘An old tragedy on a disgusting subject’: Horace Walpole and The Mysterious Mother Peter Sabor 8. ‘The memory of the liberty of the press’: the suppression of radical writing in the 1790s Alan Booth 9. A land of relative freedom: censorship of the press and the arts in the nineteenth century (1815-1914) Robert Justin Goldstein 10. Blasphemy, obscenity and the courts: contours of tolerance in nineteenth-century England M. J. D. Roberts 11. Victorian obscenity law: negative censorship or positive administration? David Saunders 12. ‘The physiological facts’: Thomas Hardy, censorship and narrative breakdown Richard Kerridge 13. Censorship ad the Great War: the first test of new statesmanship Adrian Smith 14. D. H. Lawrence: a suitable case for censorship Damian Grant 15. The treatment of homosexuality and The Well of Loneliness Katrina Rolley 16. Censorship and children’s literature: some post-war trends Peter Barry 17. Joyce, postculture and censorship Richard Brown Select bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (279 pages)
• Subjects: 363.310941; Censorship -- Great Britain -- History; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History; English literature -- Censorship
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000867961; 9781000867916
• Related ISBNs: 9781032472591
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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