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24. Contesting the Great American Novel
December 21, 2023
Bring the course to a close with a discussion of some of the formal objections to novels commonly nominated as
23. Fun Home: An All-Too-Graphic Memoir
December 21, 2023
The growth of the graphic novel genre coincided with
22. The Backlash against Harry Potter
December 21, 2023
Despite their beloved status and massive financial success, the Harry Potter books have been accused by assorted parents, school district administrators, and librarians of being excessively violent, glamorizing witchcraft and the occult, and being dismissive of traditional family values. See how Rowling
21. The Textbook Wars
December 21, 2023
A consistent category of challenges and book bans within school systems are those involving textbooks, especially history textbooks. Begin by thinking about the larger issues at stake in these controversies. Then, investigate some of the specific cases of censorship that have affected education in the United States from the 1970s to more recent controversies.
20. Alice Walker and Toni Morrison under Attack
December 21, 2023
Alice Walker and Toni Morrison are two of the most prominent Black women writers to enter the literary mainstream in the wake of the civil rights movement. Delve into Walker
19. The Battle over Critical Race Theory
December 21, 2023
First, explore some of the ways the Black Lives Matter social movement has influenced the publication and reception of some recent books. Then, look at the ways the movement has triggered fears regarding critical race theory in books and what these fears tell us about the concept of freedom in relation to books and literacy.
18. Attempts to Suppress #MeToo Books
December 21, 2023
The online social movement against sexual assault, known as the #MeToo movement, began to gather steam in 2006 and has grown in reach ever since. Here, consider some of the books that have been embraced by or emerged out of the movement and look at how they
17. Young Adult Fiction and Its Discontents
December 21, 2023
Explore the relatively new category of young adult (YA) fiction, one of the most profitable genres in publishing
16. To Kill a Mockingbird, Then and Now
December 21, 2023
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most read, most assigned, and most beloved novels in the American canon. It
15. Huckleberry Finn and Race in America
December 21, 2023
Examine the creation and legacy of Mark Twain
14. Canceled Authors
December 21, 2023
Where do we draw the line between an author
13. New Kids
December 21, 2023
Begin this look at contemporary children
12. Contested Classics of Children
December 21, 2023
In this second lecture on children
11. The Hidden Dangers of Fairy Tales
December 21, 2023
Perhaps no other body of literature is so tenaciously scrutinized and policed than books aimed at preschool and grade school readers. Here, you will begin a three-part exploration into the realm of children
10. Authors Who Censor Themselves
December 21, 2023
Consider the curious history of authors who
9. Artistry, Morality, and Nabokov
December 21, 2023
Though many critics and scholars consider Nabokov
8. Holden Caulfield
December 21, 2023
J. D. Salinger
7. Allen Ginsberg
December 21, 2023
In the 1950s, the Beat Movement in literature and pop culture set out to rebel from the status quo, and it's no surprise that one of its most famous works, Allen Ginsburg
6. Books on Fire: The Reformation to Rushdie
December 21, 2023
Here, look at the most extreme form of print censorship: the physical destruction of books deemed heretical, dangerous, or subversive. From the Protestant Reformation to Nazi Germany and beyond, you will see how the desire to stop the dissemination of various works has resulted in book burnings, violence, and even murder.
5. Anthony Comstock
December 21, 2023
Meet Anthony Comstock, the relentless late-19th-century enforcer of Victorian codes of sexual propriety. His decades-long crusade for moral purity gave us a new term for censorship and his influence shaped the history of censorship in the United States
4. Censors from the Inquisition to the Puritans
December 21, 2023
Step back in time to get the broader historical context for censorship and see how the cases of the 20th and 21st centuries fit into a much larger pattern of religious and moral pressure from the 12th century onward. Here, you will look at the influence of the Catholic Church and the colonial Puritans on the control of printed materials they found troubling or even heretical.
3. The Defense for Lady Chatterley
December 21, 2023
At the time of his death in 1930, British author D. H. Lawrence was widely viewed as one of the greatest writers of the English language. Yet, as you will see here, this popularity did not prevent some readers from taking offense to his frank depictions of sexuality, resulting in a censorship and an obscenity trial over his final novel, Lady Chatterley
2. Ulysses on Trial
December 21, 2023
James Joyce
1. Bowdlerizing the Bard
December 21, 2023
Begin the course with an introduction to the concept of literary censorship and examine why even authors as influential and esteemed as Shakespeare can fall prey to it. Meet some of the writers and editors who attempted to sanitize the bawdier parts of the Bard
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