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Maureen Corrigan
A 24-lecture course examining the history of book censorship, banning, and burning in the United States and Great Britain, exploring reasons books have been challenged (profanity, sexual content, racism, violence) and tracing shifting trends in literary censorship from Shakespeare to contemporary works.
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What this book knows
Censorship reveals what each era fears most: books banned for sex, race, religion, or radical thought expose power's anxieties more than literature's dangers.
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The Council of Trent formed the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum issued by the Catholic Church in 1564, codifying rules for printing, selling, and censoring books.
BBBB-RC-030The Satanic Verses was banned in India, Bangladesh, Sudan, South Africa, and eight other nations; commentators asked: Who would dare write or publish such a book these days?
BBBB-RC-048faith-and-doubt
Critics charged that Harry Potter lured children into attempting to emulate magic, the occult, even the demonic—shifting censor attention from sex to fantasy.
BBBB-RC-163Reverend Grabowski claimed The Catcher in the Rye takes God's name in vain 295 times, leading to repeated school-district challenges across decades.
BBBB-RC-060self-and-identity
A pronouncement that we are now a non-racist society cannot itself make it so—critical race theory confronts the barrier of historical sedimentation.
BBBB-RC-141Libraries banned Huckleberry Finn fearing the 'immoral and sacrilegious' content, even as Twain received an honorary degree from the University of Missouri the same year.
BBBB-RC-111Illuminates
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