| Description |
xv, 414 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
A sight worth looking at -- 2. Shipping, air and parcel post -- 3. No business of god or man -- 4. Sedition's fiction -- 5. Brave new moderns -- Homosexualists and pornographs -- 7. Bastards from the bush -- 8. Literature in handcuffs -- 9. Everything you could expect for a quarter -- 10. The censor poets -- 11. Because they were white, baby, and they ruled the world -- 12. Porno-politics -- 13. The 'last' banned books -- 14. Out from the underground -- 15. Decline and rise -- 16. National reading |
| Summary |
A history of book censorship in Australia; what we couldn't read, didn't read, didn't know, and why we didn't. For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Books |
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Censorship |
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Government regulation |
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History |
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Libraries |
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Morals |
| Notes |
"Uncovering the lost history of Australia's banned books"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Shortlisted, Australian history, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2013 |
| Subject |
Censorship -- Australia -- History.
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Libraries -- Censorship -- Australia -- History.
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Libraries -- Censorship -- Australia.
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Literature and morals.
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Prohibited books -- Australia -- History.
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| Author |
EBSCOhost
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| LC no. |
2012453971 |
| ISBN |
070223916X (paperback) |
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9780702239168 (paperback) |
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