Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Third Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 120 works deemed sexually obscene.
New and revised entries include:
America: The Book (Jon Stewart)
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
The Arabian Nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.)
The Art of Love (Ovid)
Forever (Judy Blume)
Gossip Girl series (Cecily von Ziegesar)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez)
Lady Chatterly's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Rabbit Run (John Updike)
Snow Falling on...
Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Third Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 120 works deemed sexually obscene. ...
Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles. Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Third Edition illustrates the extent and frequency of such censorship in nearly every form of writing.
Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assump...
Provides an eye-opening look at works of literature that have been censored around the globe and throughout history. More than 40 new entries have been added, and the more than 450 existing entries have been updated to reflect recent controversies. Each clearly written entry presents a publishing history, a summary of contents, and the record of censorship of a well-known, often classic, work.
Provides an eye-opening look at works of literature that have been censored around the globe and throughout history. More than 40 new entries have bee...