Rare Books Edinburgh 2017

Inglis, K. (Speaker)

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition

Description

Literary Censorship from Shelley's Queen Mab, 'Furtively Obtained', to Zola's 'Powerful Realistic Novels'.

Period	27 Mar 2017
Event type	Other
Location	Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

censorship
nineteenth-century literature
history of the book
legal history
obscenity
blasphemy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Emile Zola
Queen Mab
La Terre
The Soil
Henry Viztelly
Richard Carlile

Documents & Links

Talk with Dr Matthew Fellion on the censorship of literature in the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Queen Mab' and the Vizetelly translation of Emile Zola's 'La Terre'.

Related content

Research output
Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control
Research output: Book/Report › Book