The Censor's Library
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The Censor's Library

Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books

  1. 462 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Censor's Library

Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books

About this book

The first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, this enlightening and enthralling discussion is based on Nicole Moore's discovery of the secret "censor's library" in the National Archives. Combining scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, the book exposes the scandalous history of censorship in Australia. Built and maintained to ensure the books it held were not read—from the Kama Sutra to Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Joyce's Ulysses—the censor's library was kept to negate the function of libraries: 793 boxes kept safe and intact for six decades. Through courtroom dramas and internecine bureaucracy, stolen libraries and police raids, authorial scandals and moral panics, this is a provocative account on a subject that continues to attract heated debate.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. The censor’s library
  7. 1. A sight worth looking at
  8. 2. Shipping, air and parcel post
  9. 3. No business of god or man
  10. 4. Sedition’s fiction
  11. 5. Brave new moderns
  12. 6. Homosexualists and pornographs
  13. 7. Bastards from the bush
  14. 8. Literature in handcuffs
  15. 9. Everything you could expect for a quarter
  16. 10. The censor poets
  17. 11. Because they were white, baby, and they ruled the world
  18. 12. Porno-politics
  19. 13. The ‘last’ banned books
  20. 14. Out from underground
  21. 15. Decline and rise
  22. 16. National reading
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Bibliography
  25. Notes
  26. Index