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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

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