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List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Katherine Mullin: 1850-1885: Poison more deadly than prussic acid: Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act
- 2: Katherine Mullin: 1885-1899: Pernicious Literature: Vigilance in the Age of Zola
- 3: Nicola Wilson: 1900-1915: Circulating Morals
- 4: Rachel Potter: 1916-1929: Censorship and Sovereignty
- 5: David Bradshaw: James Douglas: The Sanitary Inspector of Literature
- 6: Elisabeth Ladenson: 1930-1945: After Jix
- 7: David Bradshaw: 1946-1959: American Beastliness, the Great Purge and Its Aftermath
- 8: Rod Mengham: 1960-1970: 'Bollocks to respectability: British fiction after the Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- 9: Joe Brooker: 1971 - present day: The Art of Offence: British Literary Censorship since 1971
About the author
David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written numerous articles and essays on all aspects of modernism and has edited some of its key texts. He is Co-Executive Editor (with Professor Martin Stannard) of the 42-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.
Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of
Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) and
Modernist Literature (Edinburgh, 2012), and has co-edited
The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010). She has published a number of essays on literary censorship and modernism and has just completed a book called
Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940.
Summary
This innovative book comprises nine essays from leading scholars which investigate the relationship between fiction, censorship and the legal construction of obscenity in Britain between 1850 and the present day. Each of the chapters focuses on a distinct historical period and each has something new to say about the literary works it spotlights.
