Censorship (History)

An Account of Fahrenheit 451

by JC Brown

Written for the History of Books, Printing, and Publishing (LIS 7790) -- Wayne State University, School of Library and Information Science. Dedicated to the three Js: Jaema, Janet, and Jarod.

This paper explores the development, publication history, and reception of the 1953 dystopian novella Fahrenheit 451... more This paper explores the development, publication history, and reception of the 1953 dystopian novella Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. A brief biographical sketch of Bradbury provides readers with necessary background information that shows an early interest in the topics of book burning and censorship. Development of the novella is traced by way of a collection of short stories that later evolved into Fahrenheit 451 – most of which had not been published until recently. A summary of the publication history is laid out with the most recent being the work's release in e-book format much to Bradbury's consternation. The paper examines the historical happenings which were occurring at the time of the novella's publication which affected the overall interpretation of the work with consideration given to Bradbury's sentiments. An examination of the book's censorship history is explored.

Reading Banned Books

by Andrew van der Vlies

Wasafiri 22.3 (November 2007): 55-61. [DOI: 10.1080/02690050701565810]

An Interview with Jeremy Cronin

by Andrew van der Vlies

Contemporary Literature 49.4 (Winter 2008): 514–39. [DOI: 10.1353/cli.0.0039]

‘The King’s Great Matter: Negotiating Censorship at Syon Abbey 1532-34’, Review of English Studies 62 (2011), 15-29.

by Alexandra da Costa

This article reveals how the Syon Abbey brethren resisted the pressure to accept Henry VIII's claims of ecclesiastic... more This article reveals how the Syon Abbey brethren resisted the pressure to accept Henry VIII's claims of ecclesiastic supremacy and attempts to silence their public opposition. In spite of such efforts, Richard Whitford exploited the license afforded the Abbey as a spiritual powerhouse to offer up dangerous political criticism under the guise of devotional writing. The article shows how two books written by Whitford - the Pipe of Perfection (1532) and A Daily Exercise of Death (1534) - engaged closely with the debate over ecclesiastical power and were affected by the events leading up to the Reformation. It casts light on Syon Abbey’s opposition to the King’s divorce and supremacy and illuminates the range of tactics Syon was willing to use in resisting threats to the Church in print.

Queen Caroline's Pains and Penalties: Silence and Speech in the Dramatic Art of the British Women's Suffrage Movement in Law and Literature, 24.1, 2012, pp. 40-58. published by University of California Press

by Katharine Cockin

In Britain, the act that launched the militant campaign of the suffragettes in 1905 was the interruption of a... more In Britain, the act that launched the militant campaign of the suffragettes in 1905 was the interruption of a political meeting in Manchester. The violent silencing and arrest of the women ensued. The women’s suffrage campaigns in Britain became more vigorous in the early twentieth century.
They frequently foregrounded the oppressive silencing of women in their political speeches at public meetings, in newspapers, and in the courts. Having deliberately sought arrest, some militant suffrage activists exploited the arena of the court room to expound on their political position. In various
audacious and spectacular ways, the exclusion of women from the democratic process was challenged, not least by a sustained attack on the legal system. Drama, one of the more successful cultural forms of protest, was often used to expose the inequities of the existing social fabric, and
as an aesthetic form it deploys the body as well as the voice. This paper will examine the forceful, antirhetorical function of silence in British women’s suffrage drama from the early twentieth century, focusing on the appropriation of Queen Caroline (1768–1821) as a silent proto-suffragette in Pains and Penalties, a play about her trial, written by Laurence Housman (1865–1959) and directed by Edith Craig for the Pioneer Players theater society.
Keywords: women’s suffrage drama / censorship / suffragettes / trial / parliament / monarchy

El 'donoso y grande escrutinio' o las caras de la censura

by Manuel Peña Díaz

'Hispania', LXV/3, nº 22 (2005)

The confusion that derives from certain Cervantine commentaries on censorship has inconvenienced certain historians... more The confusion that derives from certain Cervantine commentaries on censorship has inconvenienced certain historians describing his attitude towards freedom or repression.
In this work different passages from Don Quijote are analyzed, in which one observes the perplexity of an author obliged to decide between transgression of the limits or the necessity of the norms. The scrutiny of the Don Quixote's library was not merely a critique of a certain kind of Spanish literature and an evaluation of prose fiction. In this chapter and other passages of the novel, Cervantes echoes the diverse practices of censorship that were applied -^with singular criteria- to the universe of the written culture

El jesuita Juan Bautista Poza y la censura

by Manuel Peña Díaz

Co-authored with Doris Moreno, published in 'Riti di passagio, storie di giustizia. Per Adriano Prosperi' vol. III, Pisa, 2011

Cultura escrita, escrúpulos y censuras cotidianas (siglos XVI-XVIII)

by Manuel Peña Díaz

Estudis, 37 (2011)

During the 17th and 18th centuries moralists spread out a “neurosis of doubt” as an attempt to resolve a large number... more During the 17th and 18th centuries moralists spread out a “neurosis of doubt” as an attempt to resolve a large number of doubtful cases of conscience. The moralists and confessors
were aware of this great phenomenon, because of the doubt and conscientiousness treatment in Early Modern epoch meant to fulfil the confessor. The pair confession-conscientiousness
was the best ally of an Inquisition always so anxious of delations. It was in this scope of repressive practices, in this case censorial, where the supposed monopoly of the institutions was actually shared and executed, more or less, by much of society. Passing along the swampy waters and fratricidal of the Republic of Letters, author, printer, bookseller, reader or confessor might be victims or supporters in this issue. All of them had a conscience more or less doubtfully, the real triumph of the Church, which led them to betray anybody or themselves.

Censorship and Book Selection in British Public Librarianship 19191939: Professional Perspectives

by Clare Ravenwood

The Authentic Kabbalistic Writings of R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto

by Jonathan Garb

Kabbalah 25 (2011)
http://cherub-press.com

Reviews in detail the corpus of Kabbalistic writings attributed to R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto and offers guidelines for... more Reviews in detail the corpus of Kabbalistic writings attributed to R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto and offers guidelines for differentiating between authentic works, those probably penned by Luzzatto, doubtful works and those that were almost certainly not composed by him. Examines the cultural reasons for the generally uncritical approach to this question in existing research.

Of Protestantism, Performativity, and the Threat of Theater

by Jody Enders

Special Issue on “Figuring Protest and Lament in the Sixteenth Century.” Ed. Dora Polachek. Medievalia (1999): 53-72.

The Homophobic Imagination

by Rictor Norton

Ganymede Raped: Gay Literature-The Critic As Censor

by Rictor Norton

Las puertas del campo: censura y coacción informativa durante la transición, reflejadas en el humor gráfico de la prensa diaria (1974-1977)

by Francisco Segado Boj

Publicado en Anàlisi, nº 39 (2009)

Este artículo estudia el reflejo que el humor gráfico ofreció de la coercitiva legislación sobre medios de... more Este artículo estudia el reflejo que el humor gráfico ofreció de la coercitiva legislación sobre medios de comunicación vigente a lo largo de la transición española, a través de las viñetas publicadas por cinco diarios nacionales entre febrero de 1974, fecha en que se anuncia el fracasado último proyecto de apertura franquista, hasta junio de 1977, mes en que se celebran las primeras elecciones democráticas en España desde 1936. Se analiza la perspectiva crítica que el humor abordó sobre la falta de libertad de expresión, así como de las consecuencias que la propia censura tuvo sobre el humor.

‘Lights and Vessels: A New Inquiry into the "Circle" of Rav Kook and the Editors of his Works’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 13 (2005), pp. 163-247 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'"אורות" ו"כלים": בחינה מחודשת של "חוג" הראי"ה קוק ועורכי כתביו', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית, יג (תשס"ה), עמ' 247-163.

"Genres for the Prosecution: Pornography and the Gothic." PMLA 114 (1999): 1043-54.

by Michael Gamer

"Authors in Effect: Lewis, Scott, and the Gothic Drama." ELH: English Literary History 66 (1999): 831-61.

by Michael Gamer

Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus

by Sam Hardy

Hardy, S A. 2011: Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus. Brighton: University of Sussex - DPhil thesis.

Much affected by viewing the Yugoslav Wars’ ruins, I resolved to study archaeology in conflict. I wanted to explore... more Much affected by viewing the Yugoslav Wars’ ruins, I resolved to study archaeology in conflict. I wanted to explore archaeology’s role in conflict and archaeologists’ responsibilities in conflict zones; but unable to conduct such work in Kosova/Kosovo, I went to Cyprus.

Drawing together professional documentation and public education, professional and community interactions and interviews, and cultural heritage site visits, I researched the destruction of community places, the looting of cultural heritage, and the coping strategies of archaeologists.

The key questions of this thesis are:

Is it legal and ethical to conduct archaeological work in occupied and secessionist territories?
How is public knowledge of cultural heritage looting and destruction constructed?
What are cultural heritage professionals’ responsibilities for knowledge production during conflict? How ought cultural heritage professionals to combat the looting and illicit trading of antiquities?
I have addressed these questions by concentrating upon cultural heritage workers’ narratives of looting and destruction from 1955 until the present in professional discussion and mass education.

First, I argue that archaeologists have misinterpreted international law, and through boycotting and blacklisting of rescue archaeology in northern Cyprus, harmed both the profession and the cultural heritage.

Second, I argue that cultural heritage workers have been unwillingly co-opted, or actively complicit in the conflict, in the production of nationalist histories, and thus nationalist communities, therefore in the reproduction of nationalist conflict.

Third, I argue that cultural heritage workers have knowingly contributed to the conflict and its destruction, through their nationalist policies on the paramilitary-dominated illicit antiquities trade.

My conclusions are: that an ethical antiquities policy would cut funding to and thereby reduce conflict-fuelling extremist activity; and that, where they have the freedom to practice it, professional and ethical archaeologies of destruction would promote intracommunal and intercommunal peace.

The liberation of censorship in Cypriot archaeology: Representations of a suppressed UNESCO report in histories of cultural heritage destruction

by Sam Hardy

Paper presented at the Histories of Archaeology Research Network Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 14th March 2009.

In 1975, restoration architect Jacques Dalibard studied the Cypriot cultural heritage crisis for UNESCO, but his... more In 1975, restoration architect Jacques Dalibard studied the Cypriot cultural heritage crisis for UNESCO, but his report was first suppressed, then finally published, heavily censored, in 1976.  Since then, it has become a legend, not only part of histories of the destruction of cultural heritage in Cyprus, but part of general histories of Cyprus, and even global histories of censorship of historical thought.  This paper explores the influence of the unpublished report upon histories of the destruction of cultural heritage in Cyprus.

Le Carré Blanc

by Victoria H.F. Scott