Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Zola in the Country of Mrs Grundy; Chapter 2 Some Fear of Mrs Grundy before Their Eyes; Chapter 3 Defying Mrs Grundy; Chapter 4 Making Mrs Grundy's Flesh Creep; Chapter 5 Burying Mrs Grundy Alive; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism's privileged status in the struggle against and ultimate defeat of censorship remains largely unquestioned