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Print Censorship in Victorian England Print Censorship in Victorian England
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Novel Prefaces: Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, and Grant Allen, 1890–95 Novel Prefaces: Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, and Grant Allen, 1890–95
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Useless Art Useless Art
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‘Household Reading’ ‘Household Reading’
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A Hill-top Novel A Hill-top Novel
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8 The Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England
Get accessBarbara Leckie is an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the English Department and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. She has published Culture and Adultery: the Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 and is currently completing “Open Houses: The Architectural Idea, Poverty, and Victorian Print Culture, 1842-92” and “Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain: End of Century Assessments and New Directions” (an edited collection of primary documents on sanitary reform forthcoming with Pickering & Chatto).
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Published:16 December 2013
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Abstract
The last two decades of the nineteenth century saw an expansion of print as well as a new freedom of the press; such expansion produced a corresponding movement to suppress such freedom and to censor print. This essay explores the efforts of Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy and Grant Allen to redefine the censorship debates in the prefaces to their novels. Often overlooked as a forum for the interrogation of censorship, prefaces manifest not only the complexities of the pressures on novelists to regulate what they wrote but also their efforts to resist those pressures. Legal censorship existed, of course, but Wilde, Hardy, and Allen did not target those forms of control. Instead, they registered the network of pressures arising out of the contexts in which their writing was produced, received, and marketed. Those pressures created varied forms of censorship that determined what could and could not be represented in the novel.
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