Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

From Shakespeare to Harry Potter and beyond, trace the history of book banning and censorship in the English-speaking world and see why it continues today.

Syllabus

01: Bowdlerizing the Bard
02: Ulysses on Trial
03: The Defense for Lady Chatterley’s Lover
04: Censors from the Inquisition to the Puritans
05: Anthony Comstock’s Moral Crusade
06: Books on Fire: The Reformation to Rushdie
07: Allen Ginsberg’s Alarming “Howl”
08: Holden Caulfield’s Subversive Voice
09: Artistry, Morality, and Nabokov’s Lolita
10: Authors Who Censor Themselves
11: The Hidden Dangers of Fairy Tales
12: Contested Classics of Children’s Literature
13: New Kids’ Books, Old Objections
14: Canceled Authors
15: Huckleberry Finn and Race in America
16: To Kill a Mockingbird, Then and Now
17: Young Adult Fiction and Its Discontents
18: Attempts to Suppress #MeToo Books
19: The Battle over Critical Race Theory
20: Alice Walker and Toni Morrison under Attack
21: The Textbook Wars
22: The Backlash against Harry Potter
23: Fun Home: An All-Too-Graphic Memoir
24: Contesting the Great American Novel
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Taught by

Maureen Corrigan

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