TY - BOOK
T1 - Censored
T2 - A Literary History of Subversion and Control
AU - Fellion, Matthew
AU - Inglis, Katherine
N1 - Also published by McGill-Queen's University Press 01/10/2017
Netgalley and LibraryThing Reviews: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/125078
http://www.librarything.com/work/20572717/reviews/147864814
Listings in public bibliographies and resource guides:
American Library Association, Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, Information, and Book Culture, Spring 2018. Ed Goedeken. http://www.ala.org/rt/library-history-round-table/bibliography-writings-history-libraries-librarianship-information-and
National Coalition Against Censorship, 'Partly Annotated Bibliography: Books and Articles on Censorship': https://ncac.org/partly-annotated-bibliography-books-and-articles-on-censorship
Washtenaw Community College, Bailey Library, 'Cultivating Conversations' October 2018; 'Readers & Thinkers': http://libguides.wccnet.edu/communities/readers
Clovis Community College: Books on Book Banning and Book Burning; Banned Books Week 2018, Awareness and Resources: https://cloviscenter.libguides.com/bbw2018/resources
Clovis Community College: English and Reading Resources: https://www.cloviscollege.edu/student-services/library/discipline-lists/spring-2018-lists/english-and-reading-spring-2018.html
'A Burning Idea: Challenging and Censoring Books' resource list on COPLACDigital (Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges consortium Digital Liberal Arts at a Distance) network: http://burn.coplacdigital.org/course/resources/history-of-censorship/
PY - 2017/9/28
Y1 - 2017/9/28
N2 - When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In twenty-five chapters focusing on a wide range of texts, including the Bible, slave narratives, modernist classics, comic books, and Chicana/o literature, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis chart the forces that have driven censorship in the United Kingdom and the United States for over six hundred years, from fears of civil unrest and corruptible youth to the oppression of various groups – religious and political dissidents, same-sex lovers, the working class, immigrants, women, racialized people, and those who have been incarcerated or enslaved. The authors also consider the weight of speech, and when restraints might be justified. Rich with illustrations that bring to life the personalities and the books that feature in its stories, Censored takes readers behind the scenes into the courtroom battles, legislative debates, public campaigns, and private exchanges that have shaped the course of literature. A vital reminder that the freedom of speech has always been fragile and never enjoyed equally by all, Censored offers lessons from the past to guard against threats to literature in a new political era.
AB - When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In twenty-five chapters focusing on a wide range of texts, including the Bible, slave narratives, modernist classics, comic books, and Chicana/o literature, Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis chart the forces that have driven censorship in the United Kingdom and the United States for over six hundred years, from fears of civil unrest and corruptible youth to the oppression of various groups – religious and political dissidents, same-sex lovers, the working class, immigrants, women, racialized people, and those who have been incarcerated or enslaved. The authors also consider the weight of speech, and when restraints might be justified. Rich with illustrations that bring to life the personalities and the books that feature in its stories, Censored takes readers behind the scenes into the courtroom battles, legislative debates, public campaigns, and private exchanges that have shaped the course of literature. A vital reminder that the freedom of speech has always been fragile and never enjoyed equally by all, Censored offers lessons from the past to guard against threats to literature in a new political era.
KW - censorship
KW - literary history
KW - book history
KW - history of reading
KW - legal history
KW - history of the book
KW - English literature
KW - American literature
KW - libraries
UR - http://www.mqup.ca/censored-products-9780773551275.php
M3 - Book
SN - 9780712356893
SN - 9780773551275
BT - Censored
PB - British Library
CY - London
ER -