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Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

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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
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Maureen Corrigan

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