Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View

Contents: 

Part 1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution / Simon Burrows 

• Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone / Clara Tuite
• The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the Queen Caroline affair / Mary Spongberg
• 'The Chastity of our Records': Reading and Judging Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Courts / Karen Crawley 

Part 2. Controlling Ideas and Controlling People: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous Literary Expression in the Dutch East Indies / Paul Tickell 

• Teaching Librarians to be Censors: Library Education for Francophones in Quebec, 1937-61 / Geoffrey Little
• Surrealism to Pulp: The Limits of the Literary and Australian Customs / Nicole Moore
• 'That Monstrous Thing': The Critic as Censor in Apartheid South Africa / Peter McDonald 

Part 3. Diabolical Evasion of the Censor in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita / Ilona McCarter 

• Reading the Enemy: East German Censorship across the Wall / Christina Spittel
• Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War / Tyne Daile Sumner
• Freedom to Read: Barney Rosset, Henry Miller, and the End of Obscenity / Loren Glass 

Part 4. Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Overt Gay Narratives in Australia / Jeremy Fisher 

• Silenced Lives: Censorship and the Rise of Diasporic Iranian Women's Memoirs in English / Sanaz Fotouhi
• Egypt's Facebook Revolution: Arab Diaspora Literature and Censorship in the Homeland / Jumana Bayeh
• China's Elusive Truths: Censorship, Value and Literature in the Internet Age / Lynda Ng