Circles of Censorship: Censorship and Its Metaphors in French History, Literature, and Theory - Hardcover

Harrison, Nicholas

9780198159094: Circles of Censorship: Censorship and Its Metaphors in French History, Literature, and Theory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198159099 ISBN 13: 9780198159094

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1996

Circles of Censorship examines the ideas and practice of censorship and of freedom of expression in post-revolutionary French literary culture. Focusing on the fate of the work of writers such as Flaubert and Sade, and on the Freudian-influenced attempts by the Surrealists and the journal Tel Quel to evade censorship, Harrison presents a provocative critique of the ideas on censorship which currently dominate the discourses of human rights, psychoanalysis, and literary culture.

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About the Author:

Nicholas Harrison, Research Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Review:

`absorbing and stimulating book'
Times Literary Supplement

`stimulating and well-researched book. ... This is certainly a fascinating and readable account of the complex and ambiguous relationship between writer and censor, whether on legal-historical or psycho-analytic levels.'
MLR, 92.3, 1997

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