British modernism and censorship
Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit as well as harm writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship, of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship and of British modernism.
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Introduction: the ethics of indecency; 1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the censorship dialectic; 2. Bernard Shaw's defensive laughter; 3. Virginia Woolf and the gender censorship; 4. James Joyce and the necessary scandal of art; 5. Jean Rhys and the downward path; Afterword: forgotten evils; Notes; Bibliography; Index.