Writing and Censorship in Britain

First published in 1992, Writing and Censorship in Britain explores the issue of censorship, from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, from the Tudor period to the 1990s.

List of contents

Notes on the contributors Acknowledgements 1. Writing and censorship: an introduction Chronology 2. Censorship and the 1587 'Holinshed's' Chronicles 3. 'Those who else would turn all upside-down': censorship and the assize sermon, 1660-1720 4. 'All run now into Politicks': theatre censorship during the Exclusion crisis, 1679-81 5. Richard Steele: scandal and sedition 6. John Gay: censoring the censors 7. 'An old tragedy on a disgusting subject': Horace Walpole and The Mysterious Mother 8. 'The memory of the liberty of the press': the suppression of radical writing in the 1790s 9. A land of relative freedom: censorship of the press and the arts in the nineteenth century (1815-1914) 10. Blasphemy, obscenity and the courts: contours of tolerance in nineteenth-century England 11. Victorian obscenity law: negative censorship or positive administration? 12. 'The physiological facts': Thomas Hardy, censorship and narrative breakdown 13. Censorship and the Great War: the first test of new statesmanship 14. D. H. Lawrence: a suitable case for censorship 15. The treatment of homosexuality and The Well of Loneliness 16. Censorship and children's literature: some post-war trends 17. Joyce, postculture and censorship Select bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Paul Sammells Hyland
• Assisted by: Paul Hyland (Editor), Sammells Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032472607
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247260-7
• No. of pages: 279
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary theory, Ethical issues: censorship / freedom of expression