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9780199697564

Prudes on the Prowl Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the Present Day

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    9780199697564

  • ISBN10:

    0199697566

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-11-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Rachel Potter, Senior Lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia,David Bradshaw, Professor of English Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English, Worcester College, Oxford

Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) and Modernist Literature (Edinburgh, 2012), and has co-edited The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010). She has published a number of essays on literary censorship and modernism and has just completed a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940.


David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written numerous articles and essays on all aspects of modernism and has edited some of its key texts. He is Co-Executive Editor (with Professor Martin Stannard) of the 42-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.

Table of Contents


Introduction, Rachel Potter
1. 1850-1885: Poison more deadly than prussic acid: Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act, Katherine Mullin
2. 1886-1889: Pernicious Literature: Vigilance in the Age of Zola, Katherine Mullin
3. 1900-1915: Circulating Morals, Nicola Wilson
4. 1916-1929: Censorship and Sovereignty, Rachel Potter
5. James Douglas: The Sanitary Inspector of Literature, David Bradshaw
6. 1930-1945: After Jix, Elizabeth Ladenson
7. 1946-1959: American Beastliness, the Great Purge and Its Aftermath, David Bradshaw
8. 1960-1970: 'Bollocks to respectability: British fiction after the Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Rod Mengham
9. 1971 - present day: The Art of Offence: British Literary Censorship since 1971, Joe Brooker

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