Censored & banned literature /
Censored & banned literature /
editor, Robert C. Evans.
- First edition.
- xxvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Critical insights. .
- Critical insights. .
Salem Press.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About This Volume -- Silent Censorship and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Critical Contexts -- Censorship in Medieval England -- Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books: A Survey of Issues and Ideas -- Medieval Intolerance and Modern Censorship in the Morality Play Mankind -- Using Anything: Flannery O'Connor and Banning Books -- Critical Readings -- The Coming Censorship of Fiction -- "Fighting Race Calumny": Efforts to Censor The Birth of a Nation -- "Hidden Things": Self-Censorship in the Poetry and Career of Constantine Cavafy -- Banned, Bothered, and Bewildered: Lady Chatterley's Lover -- Interanimations: William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch -- Efforts to Ban Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- To Kill a Mockingbird in Columbus, Indiana: A Community Divided -- Informal Censorship: The Literary Feud between Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: The Gay Graphic Memoir as a Magnet for Censorship -- A Recent Attempt at Book "Censorship": The Conejo Valley Dispute -- Critical Insights -- Resources -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index.
Examines the wide range of important literary texts that have been subjected to censorship, either at the time of their first publication, later in their history, or both.
10-A.
9781642650280 1642650285
Prohibited books--United States.
Prohibited books--Great Britain.
Challenged books--United States.
Challenged books--Great Britain.
Censorship--United States.
Censorship--Great Britain.
Z1019 / .C467 2019
Salem Press.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About This Volume -- Silent Censorship and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Critical Contexts -- Censorship in Medieval England -- Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books: A Survey of Issues and Ideas -- Medieval Intolerance and Modern Censorship in the Morality Play Mankind -- Using Anything: Flannery O'Connor and Banning Books -- Critical Readings -- The Coming Censorship of Fiction -- "Fighting Race Calumny": Efforts to Censor The Birth of a Nation -- "Hidden Things": Self-Censorship in the Poetry and Career of Constantine Cavafy -- Banned, Bothered, and Bewildered: Lady Chatterley's Lover -- Interanimations: William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch -- Efforts to Ban Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- To Kill a Mockingbird in Columbus, Indiana: A Community Divided -- Informal Censorship: The Literary Feud between Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: The Gay Graphic Memoir as a Magnet for Censorship -- A Recent Attempt at Book "Censorship": The Conejo Valley Dispute -- Critical Insights -- Resources -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index.
Examines the wide range of important literary texts that have been subjected to censorship, either at the time of their first publication, later in their history, or both.
10-A.
9781642650280 1642650285
Prohibited books--United States.
Prohibited books--Great Britain.
Challenged books--United States.
Challenged books--Great Britain.
Censorship--United States.
Censorship--Great Britain.
Z1019 / .C467 2019