A long time burning : the history of literary censorship in England / Donald Thomas.

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Main Author: Thomas, Donald, 1934-2022.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Praeger, [1969]
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505 0 |a The Fear of Literature -- Censorship before Publication: 1476-1695 -- The Licensing System -- The Recognition of Obscene Literature -- The End of the Licensing System -- Enemies of the State: 1695-1760 -- The Unrest of the Augustans -- The Enemy Across the Water -- The Enemy Within -- Freedom in Allegory, Irony, and the Appeal to Posterity -- Censorship and the Process of Law -- Blasphemy in an Age of Reason -- The Politics of Religion -- Heretics and Blasphemers -- The Bible, the Trinity, and the Reasonableness of Christianity -- Obscene Libel and the Reformation of Manners -- The Crime of Obscene Libel -- The Reformation of Literature -- Liberty versus Licentiousness: 1760-1792 -- The Significance of the Wilkes Affair -- The New Violence of Political Libels -- 'The Ridiculous Claims of American Usurpation' -- Parliament and the Press -- Measures to Control the Press -- Press Freedom and the Rights of Juries -- Guardians of Public Morality -- The Proclamation Society -- The Proclamation and the Proclamation Society -- Scepticism and Tolerance -- Political Censorship: A Fight to the Finish -- 1792-1832 -- The Flight of Intellect -- The Fearful Example of France -- Communists, Aristocrats, and the Conduct of the War: 1800--1815 -- Sedition's Host: 1815-1822 -- Towards the Freedom of the Press: 1822-1832 -- Guardians of Public Morality -- The Society for the Suppression of Vice Godliness and Cleanliness -- Early Campaigns of the Vice Society: 1802-1825 -- The Vice Society and the Suppression of Blasphemy -- Blasphemy and Literature -- The Middle Years of the Vice Society -- Victoria: (1) 'If all Mankind minus One . . 'J. S. Mill (1859) -- 'Towards the perfect day' -- The Political Freedom of the Victorian Press -- Blasphemy and Honest Doubt -- Victoria: (2) 'Smacks and Laughter echoed through the Grove . . .' The Pearl (September 1879) -- A Blush on the Cheek of Modesty -- The Good Manners of Human Nature -- In the Twlight -- The Underworld of Victorian Literature -- The Twentieth Century: 'Plus Ca Change' 
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