censorship
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Reports: Part I
We are thrilled to share with you a number of short reports on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Read below to learn more…
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Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis. Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control
Fellion and Inglis, scholars based in Edinburgh, take on the rather large task of providing an English-language literary history of censorship beginning in the fourteenth century and ending in the…
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Michele K. Troy. Strange Bird. The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Michele K. Troy. Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xiv, 423p., ill. ISBN 9780300215687. US$ 40.00. In the 1930s, Albatross Press…
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Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940
Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 231p. ISBN 9780199680986. £55.00 (hardback). Why was Ulysses deemed obscene? Why was The Rainbow banned? What…
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Robert Darnton. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Robert Darnton. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. London: The British Library, 2014. The Panizzi Lectures 2013. 316 p., ill. ISBN 9780712357616. £25.00 (hardcover). This excellent book represents a…
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Gill Partington and Adam Smyth, eds. Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
Gill Partington and Adam Smyth, eds. Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary. New Directions in Book History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xi, 216p., ill. ISBN 9781137367655. £58 /…
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Jesús A. Martínez Martín, ed. Historia de la edición en España 1939-1975
Jesús A. Martínez Martín (ed.). Historia de la edición en España 1939-1975. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2015. 997p., ill. ISBN 9788415963554. EUR 42.00 (hardback). Historia de la edición en España 1939-1975…