A Literary History of Subversion and Control
by
Matthew Fellion, Katherine Inglis
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In...