Writing and Censorship in Britain

Paul Hyland, Neil Sammells, Paul Hyland, Neil Sammells

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032472591
• eBook ISBN: 9781000867961
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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. Written by some of the leading experts in the field, this collection charts the struggles for artistic expression, reveals how censorship is appropriated as a legitimate tactic in the defence of oppressed and marginalised groups, and analyses the struggles writers have employed in the face of its complex dynamics. Here variously defined, defended and deplored, censorship emerges as both an unstable and a potent concept. Through it we define ourselves: as readers, as writers and as citizens. This book will be of interest to students of literature, history and law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on the contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Writing and censorship: an introduction
• Part I: Tudors and Stuarts: castration and control
• Part II: The eighteenth century: liberty and licence
• Part III: The Victorian period: responsibility and repression
• Part IV: The twentieth century: radicals and readers
• Select bibliography
• Index