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British Modernism and Censorship

Name: British Modernism and Censorship
Author: Celia Marshik
ISBN: 9780521101288

by Celia Marshik

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Overview

Government censorship had a profound impact on the development of canonical modernism and on the public images of modernist writers. In British Modernism and Censorship, Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit, as well as harm, writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship, of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship, and of British modernism. Throughout, Marshik draws on an extraordinary range of evidence, including the files of government agencies and social purity organizations. She analyzes how works were written, revised, published, and performed in relation to this complex web of social forces. Chapters on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Jean Rhys demonstrate that, by both reacting against and complying with the forces of repression, writers reaped personal and stylistic benefits for themselves and for society at large.

Synopsis

Government censorship had a profound impact on the development of canonical modernism and on the public images of modernist writers. Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit as well as harm writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship, of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship and of British modernism. Throughout, Marshik draws on an extraordinary range of evidence, including the files of government agencies and social purity organisations. She analyses how works were written, revised, published and performed in relation to this complex web of social forces. Chapters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Jean Rhys demonstrate that by both reacting against and complying with the forces of repression, writers reaped personal and stylistic benefits for themselves and for society at large.