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.
Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Maureen Corrigan
