Writing and Censorship in Britain

Notes on the contributors Acknowledgements 1. Writing and censorship: an introduction Chronology 2. Censorship and the 1587 'Holinshed's' Chronicles 3. 'Those who else would turn all upside-down': censorship and the assize sermon, 1660-1720 4. 'All run now into Politicks': theatre censorship during the Exclusion crisis, 1679-81 5. Richard Steele: scandal and sedition 6. John Gay: censoring the censors 7. 'An old tragedy on a disgusting subject': Horace Walpole and The Mysterious Mother 8. 'The memory of the liberty of the press': the suppression of radical writing in the 1790s 9. A land of relative freedom: censorship of the press and the arts in the nineteenth century (1815-1914) 10. Blasphemy, obscenity and the courts: contours of tolerance in nineteenth-century England 11. Victorian obscenity law: negative censorship or positive administration? 12. 'The physiological facts': Thomas Hardy, censorship and narrative breakdown 13. Censorship and the Great War: the first test of new statesmanship 14. D. H. Lawrence: a suitable case for censorship 15. The treatment of homosexuality and The Well of Loneliness 16. Censorship and children's literature: some post-war trends 17. Joyce, postculture and censorship Select bibliography Index