David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written numerous articles and essays on all aspects of modernism and has edited some of its key texts. He is Co-Executive Editor (with Professor Martin Stannard) of the 42-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) and Modernist Literature (Edinburgh, 2012), and has co-edited The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010). She has published a number of essays on literary censorship and modernism and has just completed a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940.

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• Introduction ; 1. 1850-1885: Poison more deadly than prussic acid: Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act ; 2. 1885-1899: Pernicious Literature: Vigilance in the Age of Zola ; 3. 1900-1915: Circulating Morals ; 4. 1916-1929: Censorship and Sovereignty ; 5. James Douglas: The Sanitary Inspector of Literature ; 6. 1930-1945: After Jix ; 7. 1946-1959: American Beastliness, the Great Purge and Its Aftermath ; 8. 1960-1970: 'Bollocks to respectability: British fiction after the Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover ; 9. 1971 - present day: The Art of Offence: British Literary Censorship since 1971

David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written numerous articles and essays on all aspects of modernism and has edited some of its key texts. He is Co-Executive Editor (with Professor Martin Stannard) of the 42-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) and Modernist Literature (Edinburgh, 2012), and has co-edited The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010). She has published a number of essays on literary censorship and modernism and has just completed a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940.

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• Introduction ; 1. 1850-1885: Poison more deadly than prussic acid: Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act ; 2. 1885-1899: Pernicious Literature: Vigilance in the Age of Zola ; 3. 1900-1915: Circulating Morals ; 4. 1916-1929: Censorship and Sovereignty ; 5. James Douglas: The Sanitary Inspector of Literature ; 6. 1930-1945: After Jix ; 7. 1946-1959: American Beastliness, the Great Purge and Its Aftermath ; 8. 1960-1970: 'Bollocks to respectability: British fiction after the Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover ; 9. 1971 - present day: The Art of Offence: British Literary Censorship since 1971

David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written numerous articles and essays on all aspects of modernism and has edited some of its key texts. He is Co-Executive Editor (with Professor Martin Stannard) of the 42-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) and Modernist Literature (Edinburgh, 2012), and has co-edited The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010). She has published a number of essays on literary censorship and modernism and has just completed a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940.

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• Introduction ; 1. 1850-1885: Poison more deadly than prussic acid: Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act ; 2. 1885-1899: Pernicious Literature: Vigilance in the Age of Zola ; 3. 1900-1915: Circulating Morals ; 4. 1916-1929: Censorship and Sovereignty ; 5. James Douglas: The Sanitary Inspector of Literature ; 6. 1930-1945: After Jix ; 7. 1946-1959: American Beastliness, the Great Purge and Its Aftermath ; 8. 1960-1970: 'Bollocks to respectability: British fiction after the Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover ; 9. 1971 - present day: The Art of Offence: British Literary Censorship since 1971