David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He has written numerous articles and essays on all aspects of modernism and has edited some of its key texts. He is Co-Executive Editor (with Professor Martin Stannard) of the 42-volume OUP edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) and Modernist Literature (Edinburgh, 2012), and has co-edited The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010). She has published a number of essays on literary censorship and modernism and has just completed a book called Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment, 1900-1940.
* Introduction
* 1: Katherine Mullin: 1850-1885: Poison more deadly than prussic acid:
Defining Obscenity after the 1857 Obscene Publications Act
* 2: Katherine Mullin: 1885-1899: Pernicious Literature: Vigilance in
the Age of Zola
* 3: Nicola Wilson: 1900-1915: Circulating Morals
* 4: Rachel Potter: 1916-1929: Censorship and Sovereignty
* 5: David Bradshaw: James Douglas: The Sanitary Inspector of
Literature
* 6: Elisabeth Ladenson: 1930-1945: After Jix
* 7: David Bradshaw: 1946-1959: American Beastliness, the Great Purge
and Its Aftermath
* 8: Rod Mengham: 1960-1970: 'Bollocks to respectability: British
fiction after the Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
* 9: Joe Brooker: 1971 - present day: The Art of Offence: British
Literary Censorship since 1971
