Title: Writing and censorship in Britain /
Authors: Hyland, Paul, 1953-; Sammells, Neil.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Censorship Great Britain History.
Contents: 1. Writing and censorship: an introduction / Neil Sammells -- Pt. I. Tudors and Stuarts: castration and control. 2. Censorship and the 1587 'Holinshed's' Chronicles / Annabel Patterson. 3. 'Those who else would turn all upside-down': censorship and the assize sermon, 1660-1720 / Barbara White. 4. 'All run now into Politicks': theatre censorship during the Exclusion crisis, 1679-81 / Janet Clare -- Pt. II. The eighteenth century: liberty and licence. 5. Richard Steele: scandal and sedition / Paul Hyland. 6. John Gay: censoring the censors / Calhoun Winton. 7. 'An old tragedy on a disgusting subject': Horace Walpole and The Mysterious Mother / Peter Sabor. 8. 'The memory of the liberty of the press': the suppression of radical writing in the 1790s / Alan Booth -- Pt. III. The Victorian period: responsibility and repression. 9. A land of relative freedom: censorship of the press and the arts in the nineteenth century (1815-1914) / Robert Justin Goldstein. 10. Blasphemy, obscenity and the courts: contours of tolerance in nineteenth-century England / M. J. D. Roberts. 11. Victorian obscenity law: negative censorship or positive administration? / David Saunders. 12. 'The physiological facts': Thomas Hardy, censorship and narrative breakdown / Richard Kerridge -- Pt. IV. The twentieth century: radicals and readers. 13. Censorship and the Great War: the first test of new statesmanship / Adrian Smith. 14. D. H. Lawrence: a suitable case for censorship / Damian Grant. 15. The treatment of homosexuality and The Well of Loneliness / Katrina Rolley. 16. Censorship and children's literature: some post-war trends / Peter Barry. 17. Joyce, postculture and censorship / Richard Brown.