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What this book knows
Literature's most contested books reveal that censorship has always been a battle over who controls language, sex, and power.
obedience-and-authority
Mervyn Griffith-Jones informed the jury that the book was little more than a compilation of 13 separate 'bouts' of sexual intercourse.
GCBB-RC-026Comstock's moral zealotry was intimately bound up with two things: his own evangelical faith and the growth of the US Post Office.
GCBB-RC-036Comstock's publicized warnings to Whitman and Heywood's trial boosted sales of the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.
GCBB-RC-041erotic-as-power
Scotland Yard ordered postal workers to open a package containing Lawrence's poems; authorities insisted his publisher delete about a dozen pages.
GCBB-RC-021Ray justifies his dubious decision to edit the novel by saying it should serve as a moral lesson for future generations—Nabokov tweaking expectations.
GCBB-RC-063desire
Literary obscurity, for Joyce, became a saving grace; lawyers for the prosecution had difficulty making out what exactly Joyce was saying.
GCBB-RC-0166 published passages · documentary · research analysis
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