Screen LibraryCensorship and the limits of the literary : a global view /
"Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive. On the one hand, literary censorship has been posited as not only...
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2015 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive. On the one hand, literary censorship has been posited as not only inescapable but definitive, even foundational to speech itself. On the other, especially after the opening of the USSR's spekstrahn, those enormous collections of literature forbidden under the Soviets, the push to redefine censorship expansively has encountered cogent criticism. Scholars describing t "Explores the defining relationship of literature to censorship across the globe"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501330391 150133039X 9781628920093 1628920092 |
| Index Number: | Z657 |
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D523.3 I0-05 |
| Call Number: | I0-05/C396 |
| Contents: | Part I. 1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution / Simon Burrows -- 2. Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone / Clara Tuite -- 3. The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the Queen Caroline affair / Mary Spongberg -- 4. 'The Chastity of our Records': Reading and Judging Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Courts / Karen Crawley -- Part II. 5. Controlling Ideas and Controlling People: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous Literary Expression in the Dutch East Indies / Paul Tickell -- 6. Teaching Librarians to be Censors |