Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize 2013, and co-editor of The Literature of Australia (2009).

[A] remarkable collection ... The strength of this book lies in its range of research, with twelve nation states across four centuries being explored ... An important contribution to the scholarship, providing a wealth of original and engaging research.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction I1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution Simon Burrows, University of Western Sydney, Australia2. Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne, Australia3. The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the QueenCaroline Affair Mary Spongberg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia4. ‘The Chastity of our Records’: Reading and Judging Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Courts Karen Crawley, Griffith University, Australia II5. Controlling Ideas and Controlling People: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous LiteraryExpression in the Dutch East Indies Paul Tickell, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia6. Teaching Librarians to be Censors: Library Education for Francophones in Quebec, 1937-1961Geoffrey Little, Concordia University, Canada7. Surrealism to Pulp: The Limits of the Literary and Australian CustomsNicole Moore, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia8. ‘That Monstrous Thing’: The Critic as Censor in Apartheid South AfricaPeter D. McDonald, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UKIII9. Diabolical Evasion of the Censor in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and MargaritaIlona Urquhart, Deakin University, Australia 10. Reading the Enemy: East German Censorship across the Wall Christina Spittel, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia 11. Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne, Australia12. Freedom to Read: Barney Rosset, Henry Miller, and the End of ObscenityLoren Glass, University of Iowa, USAIV13. Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Overt Gay Narratives in AustraliaJeremy Fisher, University of New England, USA14. Silenced Lives: Censorship and the Rise of Diasporic Iranian Women’s Memoirs in English Sanaz Fotouhi, University of New South Wales, Australia15. Egypt’s Facebook Revolution: Arab Diaspora Literature and Censorship in the Homeland Jumana Bayeh, University of Edinburgh, UK16. China’s Elusive Truths: Censorship, Value and Literature in the Internet age Lynda Ng, University of Oxford, UKList of ContributorsIndex

Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize 2013, and co-editor of The Literature of Australia (2009).

[A] remarkable collection ... The strength of this book lies in its range of research, with twelve nation states across four centuries being explored ... An important contribution to the scholarship, providing a wealth of original and engaging research.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction I1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution Simon Burrows, University of Western Sydney, Australia2. Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne, Australia3. The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the QueenCaroline Affair Mary Spongberg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia4. ‘The Chastity of our Records’: Reading and Judging Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Courts Karen Crawley, Griffith University, Australia II5. Controlling Ideas and Controlling People: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous LiteraryExpression in the Dutch East Indies Paul Tickell, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia6. Teaching Librarians to be Censors: Library Education for Francophones in Quebec, 1937-1961Geoffrey Little, Concordia University, Canada7. Surrealism to Pulp: The Limits of the Literary and Australian CustomsNicole Moore, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia8. ‘That Monstrous Thing’: The Critic as Censor in Apartheid South AfricaPeter D. McDonald, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UKIII9. Diabolical Evasion of the Censor in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and MargaritaIlona Urquhart, Deakin University, Australia 10. Reading the Enemy: East German Censorship across the Wall Christina Spittel, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia 11. Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne, Australia12. Freedom to Read: Barney Rosset, Henry Miller, and the End of ObscenityLoren Glass, University of Iowa, USAIV13. Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Overt Gay Narratives in AustraliaJeremy Fisher, University of New England, USA14. Silenced Lives: Censorship and the Rise of Diasporic Iranian Women’s Memoirs in English Sanaz Fotouhi, University of New South Wales, Australia15. Egypt’s Facebook Revolution: Arab Diaspora Literature and Censorship in the Homeland Jumana Bayeh, University of Edinburgh, UK16. China’s Elusive Truths: Censorship, Value and Literature in the Internet age Lynda Ng, University of Oxford, UKList of ContributorsIndex

Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize 2013, and co-editor of The Literature of Australia (2009).

[A] remarkable collection ... The strength of this book lies in its range of research, with twelve nation states across four centuries being explored ... An important contribution to the scholarship, providing a wealth of original and engaging research.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction I1. French Censorship on the Eve of the Revolution Simon Burrows, University of Western Sydney, Australia2. Not Guilty: Negative Capability and the Trials of William Hone Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne, Australia3. The Gender of Censorship: John Wilson Croker, Mary Hays and the Aftermath of the QueenCaroline Affair Mary Spongberg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia4. ‘The Chastity of our Records’: Reading and Judging Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Courts Karen Crawley, Griffith University, Australia II5. Controlling Ideas and Controlling People: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous LiteraryExpression in the Dutch East Indies Paul Tickell, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia6. Teaching Librarians to be Censors: Library Education for Francophones in Quebec, 1937-1961Geoffrey Little, Concordia University, Canada7. Surrealism to Pulp: The Limits of the Literary and Australian CustomsNicole Moore, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia8. ‘That Monstrous Thing’: The Critic as Censor in Apartheid South AfricaPeter D. McDonald, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UKIII9. Diabolical Evasion of the Censor in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and MargaritaIlona Urquhart, Deakin University, Australia 10. Reading the Enemy: East German Censorship across the Wall Christina Spittel, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia 11. Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne, Australia12. Freedom to Read: Barney Rosset, Henry Miller, and the End of ObscenityLoren Glass, University of Iowa, USAIV13. Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Overt Gay Narratives in AustraliaJeremy Fisher, University of New England, USA14. Silenced Lives: Censorship and the Rise of Diasporic Iranian Women’s Memoirs in English Sanaz Fotouhi, University of New South Wales, Australia15. Egypt’s Facebook Revolution: Arab Diaspora Literature and Censorship in the Homeland Jumana Bayeh, University of Edinburgh, UK16. China’s Elusive Truths: Censorship, Value and Literature in the Internet age Lynda Ng, University of Oxford, UKList of ContributorsIndex