Recent Studies of Censorship, Press Freedom, Libel, Obscenity, Etc., in the Long Eighteenth Century, Published C
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Recent Studies of Censorship, Press Freedom, Libel, Obscenity, etc., in the Long Eighteenth Century, Published c. 1985-2015 This bibliography lists scholarship published between 1985 and 2015 related to the freedom of the press and, more frequently, censorship (zensur, censura, censure ) from communal, legal, moral, political, and religious sources (and the self-censorship such forces inspire). The 2015 revision corrected some errors and greatly increases the number of entries listed in 2010, expanding the bibliography from 51 to 86 pages. In February 2016 I expand it to 94 pages, with many of the new entries involving Hispanic culture. Although church and state licensing is included, restrictions on printing that involve copyright and literary property are covered in my bibliography on studies of authorship during the period, and guild licensing and piracy usually in the bibliography on studies of publishers. The scope involves the “long eighteenth century,” here 1660-1820, and is limited to Europe and the Americas. Dissertations and book reviews are included. The coverage is best for 1990-2013 publications, the period for which I have compiled the section on bibliography and the history of print-related fields for ECCB: Eighteenth- Century Current Bibliography . This bibliography expands upon two short checklists published in The East-Central Intelligencer ’s September 2004 and February 2005 issues (cited below). I have, no doubt, overlooked a great deal of scholarship on Continental Europe, where more censorship occurred than in English-speaking regions and to which much more research has been directed (I’ve pursued studies of “clandestine” literature on the Continent, though some literature so classified was not threatened with censorship). I have not listed Wikipedia websites and the like, though such online sources are greatly increasing, some from rock-solid sources as the Bibliothèque National de France (one such BNF bibliography is listed). Nor have I listed here all general and national surveys of the history of the book, which can be expected to address censorship. Within British studies, much might be added about pornography, but then much that can be termed “pornography” was not censored. Certain authors, publishers, and groups (Quakers, for instance) were particularly subject to censorship and have been pursued. In citing the reviews of books, I have sometimes employed abbreviations for major journals in historical and literary studies. My list is drawn from my own library work and searching through the dozen or so major annual bibliographies and the “recently published” lists in bibliographical and eighteenth-century journals--and the websites of individual scholars, journals, and publishers and the websites of venders of publication reprints, like Brill-Online, Dialnet, and Project Muse. ABELL , Google, the MLA’s International Bibliography , and OCLC’s WorldCat have been invaluable in completing partial entries and discovering others. Scholars’ posted CV’s have been helpful. As for general serial surveys of bibliographical and book history publications, I benefited most from the electronic quarterly L’Almanacco bibliografico-- for over ten years now the most useful bibliographical review in any language, and also from the most helpful in English: the “Recent Books” and “Recent Periodicals” surveys in The Library . I thank the Bibliographical Society of America for this posting on BibSite, particularly Christina Geiger of Bonhams, the editor of BibSite, and I apologize to scholars for inaccuracies and for works overlooked. James E. May ([email protected]) Penn State University--DuBois Campus 20 February 2016 [Previously posted 22 July 2010 (with the assistance of Jeffrey Barton and Travis Gordon); 23 July 2015 (with the assistance of Christina Geiger).] Abellán García-González, José Luis. “El liberalismo gaditano: José Ma Blanco-White.” Studi Ispanici , 36 (2011), 119-24. [On the political context of censorship, 1700-1799, within a special issue entitled “Político y pensamiento político en la literatura hispánica.”] Abinzadeh, Arash. “Publicity, Privacy, and Religious Toleration in Hobbes’s Leviathan.” Modern Intellectual History , 10 (2013), 261-91. Abramovici, Jean-Christophe. “Aux temps où l’on savait encore ‘ce que c’est que rougir’: Interdits langagiers et pudeur féminine a à l’ âge classique.” Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte / Cahiers d’Histoire des Littératures Romanes , 23, nos. 1-2 (1999), 27-38. Abramovici, Jean-Christophe (ed.). Le livre interdit: De Théophile de Viu à Sade . Paris: Payot & Rivages, 1996. Pp. 290; illus. (some in color). Abreu, Márcia. Os caminhos dos livros . Campinas, São Paulo: Mercado de Letras; Associacao de Leitura do Brasil, 2003. Pp. 382. [History of reading and publishing in Rio de Janeiro, 1769-1821, treating licensing, censorship, the booktrade and authors.] Abreu, Márcia (ed.). Trajetórias do romance: Circulaçao, leitura e escrita nos séculos XVII e XIX . Campinas: Mercado de Letras, 2008. Pp. 648. [Over two dozen essays on the production, sale, and consumption of fiction in Brazil, drawing on advertisements, catalogues, and censorship reports.] Abruzzo, Margaret. “Apologetics of Harmony: Mathew Carey and the Rhetoric of Religious Liberty.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , 134 (2010), 5-30. Achinstein, Sharon. Literature and Dissent in Milton's England . Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 302; illustrations; index. [Rev. by P. G. Stanwood in Seventeenth-Century News , 63 (2005), 164-68.] Achinstein, Sharon, and Elizabeth Sauer (eds.). Milton and Toleration . Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2007. Pp. 320. [Essays with some relevance to discussions of censorship and freedom of speech include Nigel Smith's "Milton and the European Context of Toleration" (23-44); David Loewenstein's "Toleration and the Specter of Heresy in Milton's England" (45-71); Thomas N. Corns's "John Milton, Roger Williams, and the Limits of Toleration" (72-85); Nicholas von Maltzahn's "Milton, Marvell, and Toleration" (86-106); James Grantham Turner's "Libertinism and Toleration: Milton, Bruno, and Aretino" (107-25); and Jason P. Rosenblatt's "Milton, Natural Law, and Toleration" (126-43). Rev. by Paul M. Dowling in Journal of British Studies , 48 (2009), 197-98; by Noam Reisner in Review of English Studies , n.s. 59 (2008), 157-59.] Adams, David, and Adrian Armstrong (eds.). Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. vi + 145. [Includes Ann Dean's "Insinuation and Instruction: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century 'Letters to the Printer'" (85-98); Lee Morrissey's "'Charity,' Recent Studies of Censorship, Press Freedom, Libel, Obscenity, etc., in the Long Eighteenth Century, Published c. 1985-2015 by James E. May, revised February 2016, page 2 Social Control, and the History of English Literary Criticism" (53-68); and Alison Saunders's "'Illustrated Books': Political Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century France" (69-84). Rev. by Pollie Bromilow in Modern Language Review , 103 (2008), 166-67; by Cynthia Jane Brown in French Studies , 62 (2008), 85-86; by Matt Thrond in Sixteenth-Century Journal, 39 (2008), 146-47.] Adams, Geoffrey. The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787: The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration . Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 1991. Pp. xiv + c. 340; bibliography; illus.; index. Addeo, Girolamo. "La Libertà di stampa nella Repubblica napoletana del 1799." Atti dell'Accademia Pontaniana di Napoli , 14 (1996 [1997]), 243-93. Agueda Méndez, María (ed). Catálogo de textos marginados novohispanos: Inquisición, Siglos XVIII y XIX: Archivo General de la Nación (México) . Mexico, DF: Archivo General de la Nación, Colegio de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992. Pp. xiv + 792; bibliography. [OCLC gives the publishers as corporate co-compilers.] Agueda Méndez, María. "The Mexican Inquisition vs. the Spirit of Independence." Dieciocho , 14 (1991), 92-101. [A survey of the 2000 texts in the Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico City) reveals that most suppression by the Holy Office involved religious transgression, not political, but that political suppression occurred as well, particularly during crises in 1702, 1761, and 1810. Agueda Méndez writes as the general coordinator for a projected catalogue of the literary texts in the Archives.] Alamillo Alvarez, Rocío. “Magia e Inquisición en el siglo XVIII: Práticas y espacios.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies , 92, no. 5 (2015), 811-29. [Special issue entitled “Inquisición, cultura y vida cotidiana en el mundo hispánico (siglos XVI-XVIII),” edited by Clive Griffin with an introduction by Manuel Peña Díaz.] Albertan Coppola, Sylviane. "La littérature clandestine au XVIII e siècle: Orientations de la recherche: Notes Critiques." Revue de l'histoire des religions , 216 (1999), 355-66. Allan, Keith, and Kate Burridge. Forbidden Words, Taboo, and the Censoring of Language . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 314; index. [Not a historical study but suggestive and useful.] Alonso Seoane, María José. “Los originales presentados a censura de las lectura útiles y entretenidas.” EntreSiglos: Actas de Congreso Entre Siglos: Cultura y Literatura en España finales del siglo XVII a principios del XIX, Bordighera, 3-6 Abril 1990 . Edited by Ermanno Caldea and Rinaldo Froldi. Rome: Bulzoni, 1993. Pp. 267. [On Peruvian literature.] Alonso Seoane, Maria José. "Las ültimas obras de Olavide a través de