Forbidden Literature: Case Studies on Censorship

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I Literature in court -- Only a bullet through the heartcan stop a lesbian vampire -- The case against Lady Chatterley's Lover -- The sadist housewife -- So bad it should be banned -- II Contingencies of censorship -- Risen from the ashes -- Some aesthetic sideeffects of copyright -- 'A Romanian Solzhenitsyn' -- III Censorship and politics -- Poison, literary vermin,and misguided youths -- Cultural policy as biopolitics -- Protecting books from readers -- Truth, knowledge, and power -- References -- About the authors.