Censorship and the Limits of the Literary

Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize 2013, and co-editor of The Literature of Australia (2009).

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Introduction

I

1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution
Simon Burrows, University of Western Sydney, Australia

2. Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone
Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne, Australia

3. The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the Queen
Caroline Affair
Mary Spongberg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

4. ‘The Chastity of our Records’: Reading and Judging Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Courts
Karen Crawley, Griffith University, Australia

II

5. Controlling Ideas and Controlling People: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous Literary
Expression in the Dutch East Indies
Paul Tickell, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

6. Teaching Librarians to be Censors: Library Education for Francophones in Quebec, 1937-1961
Geoffrey Little, Concordia University, Canada

7. Surrealism to Pulp: The Limits of the Literary and Australian Customs
Nicole Moore, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

8. ‘That Monstrous Thing’: The Critic as Censor in Apartheid South Africa
Peter D. McDonald, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK

III

9. Diabolical Evasion of the Censor in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
Ilona Urquhart, Deakin University, Australia

10. Reading the Enemy: East German Censorship across the Wall
Christina Spittel, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

11. Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War
Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne, Australia

12. Freedom to Read: Barney Rosset, Henry Miller, and the End of Obscenity
Loren Glass, University of Iowa, USA

IV


13. Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Overt Gay Narratives in Australia
Jeremy Fisher, University of New England, USA

14. Silenced Lives: Censorship and the Rise of Diasporic Iranian Women’s Memoirs in English
Sanaz Fotouhi, University of New South Wales, Australia

15. Egypt’s Facebook Revolution: Arab Diaspora Literature and Censorship in the Homeland
Jumana Bayeh, University of Edinburgh, UK

16. China’s Elusive Truths: Censorship, Value and Literature in the Internet age
Lynda Ng, University of Oxford, UK

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Index