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Aalberse, Han B. 91 Austria aanstotelijk voor de eerbaarheid (offensive Austrian constitution to public decency) 90, 93, 98 (Staatsgrundgesetz) 118 Académie française 37 Austrian Penal Code, Article 188 of Adorno, Theodor W.151 117–18 aesthetic transformation 151 blasphemy trials in 117–18 aesthetic value 194, 198 author–narrator–character 31, 123–6, 148, agit-courts (Agitsudy) 126 154, 162–5, 168, 170 Aids Foundation 180 authors Aksenov, Ivan 126 and desire for fame 27 Albee, Edward 99 and desire for reward 27 Alens, Katia 160 legal responsibility 27 Algerian war 41 and obscenity 23 Alleg, Henri 41 and personal conviction 27 Allen, Woody 194 prosecution in France 21, 25, 36–40 Als ich das erste Mal mit einem Jungen im and reasons for rationality 27 Bett lag (Kempker) 143 and romanticism 23 Anderton, James 203–4 and subjective responsibility 23–4 And Ladies of the Club (Hooven Santmyer) and subjectivity 23 199 and target audience 26 Angot, Christine 5, 43–4 author’s right 24, 185. See also copyright Ansel, Michael 142–3, 153 autofiction 43 anti-Semitism 204–5, 210 Autour d’un clocher (Desprez) 35 Antwerp Fair 163, 166 Auwera, Fernand 166 Antwerp Hof van Beroep (Appeal Court) 159, 164 Babel, Isaak 128 apartheid 176–7 Bakhtin, Mikhail 134 censorship 69 Bakker, Bert 98 system 11 Barbusse, Henri 90, 92 Appeal Court of Antwerp (Hof van Beroep Barthes, Roland 41 van Antwerpen) 159 Baudelaire, Charles 5, 24, 30–2 Archive of the Central Commission for Baxter, Beverley 58 Film Censorship (Filmkeuring) 93 Baxter, Walter 52 Arthur Barker Ltd. 52 BBC Radio 4’s ‘Bookclub’ 199 artistic freedom. See exceptio artis Beau ideal 31 Ash, Timothy Garton 120 Beckett, Samuel 99, 152 Atkinson, Rowan 208–9 Beerman, A.C.W. 93 Atlas 114 Beeusaert, Magdalena 166 Austin, J.L. 26, 130 Belgium Autralian censorship 83 Belgian Constitution 163, 165, 169 218 Index

defamation trials in 159–72 British Union of Fascists 208 obscenity trials in 160–1, 172 Britton, David 203–5 Benda, Julien 38 Brjusov, Valerij 126 Bénier-Burckel, Éric 42 Brodsky, Iosif 133 Benjamin, Walter 109, 113 The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) 132 Béraud, Henri 37, 39 Brown, Dan 194 Berger, John 206–7 Brünneck, Rupp-von 151 Berliner Bezirksausschuss (Berlin Brusselmans, Herman 5, 159–72 Administrative Court) 109–10 Uitgeverij Guggenheimer 159–72 Berlin Film Festival 115 Bukharin, Nikolai 131 Berling, Peter 114 Bullynck, B. 168 Bezhin lug 128 Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) 142, 147–9, 151 Bible 124 Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) 141–3, Bidoit, Elise 43–4 145–9, 151–5 Biller, Maxim 6, 141–2, 149 Bürger, Peter 153 Esra 141–55 Burgess, Anthony 80 bio-political goals 64 Butler, Judith 7, 130 bio-power 64 Butler, R.A. 61 blasphemy laws 6, 116, 137, 202–7 Butterworth, Michael 203 blasphemy trials in Austria 117–19 Campbell Act 10, 49 in Germany 6, 115–17 Campbell, Lord John 6, 12–13, 65 in the Netherlands 89–90 Campert, Remco 166 in the UK 195, 202–7 Cardiff School of English, Communication Bleak House (Dickens) 210 and Philosophy 198 Blue Movie 93, 101–3 Carter-Ruck 181 Board of Film Censorship (Netherlands) Catholic religious morality 22 101–3 causality 24, 26 Bob and Daphne (Aalberse) 91 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 24 Boccaccio, Giovanni 52–3 censorship 3, 7, 25, 41, 58–62, 66, Bok, Curtis 71–2, 81 70–2, 76–9, 83–4, 93–4, 101–2, Böll, Heinrich 152 109, 113, 115, 130, 163, 166, 169, book clubs, rise of 198–202 171, 175–7 The Book Group 200 apartheid 69 Book-of-the-Month Club 200 British attitudes to 59 book publications, and pornography and free press 21 94–9 literature, in South Africa 69 Bouazza, Hafid166 publishers’ representatives on 61 Bourbon Restoration 21, 23, 28–30, 44 in theatre 21 Bourdieu, Pierre 6, 50, 92, 93, 171, 179, unofficial 60 191–3, 195, 206 Central Criminal Court 49, 52 Bradshaw, David 50 Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring Brasillach, Robert 37–40 93, 100–1 execution 40 Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Brecht, Bertolt 152 (CCCS) 197–8, 202 Brink, André 5, 70, 74–5, 77–8, 80 Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory British Parliament Select Committee (CCCT) 198, 202 10–11, 13, 54, 59–61, 65–6 chanson 25, 28–9 Index 219

Charlie Hebdo attack 6, 212 ‘death of the author’ 41 Charms, Daniel 128 death penalty, execution 36–7, 40, 128, Charte constitutionnelle of 1814 5, 21 131 Choudhury, Abdul Hussain 205–6 de Balzac, Honoré 14, 26–7, 32 Christianity 75, 129, 205 de Beauvoir, Simone 40 Claus, Hugo 159, 161, 167, 171 de Béranger, Pierre-Jean 23, 28–30 Cleland, John 93, 95 prosecution 28–9 close 22, 25, 175, 182, 184–5 The Decamerone (Boccaccio) 52 Coetzee, J.M. 176 Decamerone case 58 collaboration 24, 36, 39 deed, image as 134–7 Combelle, Lucien 39 Defamation Act (2013) 178, 185 Commissaire du gouvernement 38 defamation trials Committee on Obscenity and Film in Belgium 159–72 Censorship 193 in France 35, 42–5 comrade trials (tovarishcheskie sudy) 127 in Germany 142, 146–50 Comstock, Anthony 15 ‘Defence of the People’ 135 Connell, Vivian 51 Degeneration (Nordau) 34 ‘conquest of autonomy’ 23, 179 de Grazia, Edward 3 Conrad, Michael Georg 109, 116 De Hel (Barbusse) 90 constitutional codification ofexceptio artis De kamer hiernaast (Verhulst) 161 8–9 de la Parra, Pim 101 contagion, as a metaphor 26, 129–30 De markies De Sade (Pappot) 98 copyright 24, 118, 185, 192. See also de Maupassant, Guy 15 author’s right Demeulemeester, Ann 5, 159, 160, 162–3, Coronation Street 200 164–5, 167 Corpus Christi (McNally) 108 de Meulemeester, Ilse 160 Cour de Justice de la Seine 36 democracy 8, 41–5, 80, 82, 125, 175 Courier, Paul-Louis 23, 28–30 Der deutsche Michel und der römische Papst Cover, Robert 206–7 (Panizza) 108 Criminal Code of the RSFSR de Sade, Marquis 24, 41, 93, 96–9, 101, 104 Article 1 of 123 and Fanny Hill publication in Article 58 of 129 Netherlands 96–7 Article 209 of 133 image as pornographer 98 critical readership, changes in 194, 198–202 Justine 97, 98 Crown Prosecution Service 194 memoires of 97–8 cultural studies, rise of 195–8 Descaves, Lucien 33 Czechoslovakia desire for fame 27 political trials in 133–4 desire for reward 27 De slecht befaamde Markies De Sade Daniel, Yuli 123 (Gysen) 98 Danslessen (Waterdrinker) 10, 90 Desprez, Louis 35 Danto, Arthur C. 175 De Terugkeer van Bonanza (Brusselmans) The Dark Sun (Hough) 197 159 Das Liebeskonzil (Panizza) 107–8, 111, De toekomst der religie (Vestdijk) 102 113–17 de Troch, Joyce 160, 166 Das Pornohaus in Amsterdam (Blue Movie) Deutsches Reich 6, 116 101 Deutsches Theater (German Theatre) Deakin, Simon 186–7 109–10 220 Index deviants 128 European Court of Human Rights 4, 6, 42, de Vos, Sabine 160, 166 107, 118, 120 didactic inversion 14, 30–2 exceptio artis 3–4, 8–12, 49, 50–1, 56–7, Diderot, Denis 24 59, 62, 66, 71–3, 75–6, 78, 80–3, 92, Die unbefleckte Empfängnis der Päpste 116–18, 119, 125, 143–5, 148–50, (Panizza) 108 154,161–2, 164, 166–7, 169, 171, Die Weber (Hauptmann) 109–10 176, 191 Die Weisheit Salomos (Heyse) 110 colonial 71 digital media 183, 185 constitutional 9 Dionysia 1 described 8 discrimination trials explicit codification of10 in France 42 and French laws 11, 23 in the Netherlands 89, 91 in German law and jurisdiction 144–6 in the UK 207–9 juridical basis for 90 Donkey trial (Reve) 89–90 misunderstandings about 8–9 Dreyfus Affair35 –6 and public morality 62–6 Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre 39, 40 exceptio scientiae 72 Dutch Royal 92–3, 98 Excitable Speech (Butler) 130

EastEnders 200 Fanny Hill (Cleland) 57, 91, 93, 95–7 Eastern Bloc 5, 7, 11, 15 Fauconnet, Paul 21–2 Eckart, Dietrich 204 on treason 36 Eekhoud, Georges 160–1 fictionality 13, 25–6, 33, 38, 42–4, 73, effect-witnesses7 , 132–5, 137 89, 107–8, 111, 124, 142–3, Eggers, Dave 152 148–9, 151, 163–6, 179, 182, Eichner, Christian 142–3, 149–53 184–6, 188, 193, 196, 199, 200, Eisenstein, Sergei 128 201, 206–7, 210 Eliot, T.S. 60, 61, 63 fieldtheory Emperor Wilhelm 108, 110 field of art 126 épuration period 23, 36 field of power11 –12, 74, 92, 125, 150, Erofeev, Andrei 135 154, 176, 191 eroticism 94, 108, 111–12 legal field6 , 10–15, 50, 92, 104 Erotisch Panorama (Erotic Panorama) 99 literary field15 –16, 23, 32, 35, 50, 51, Escal-Vigor (Eekhoud) 161 55, 62, 69, 72–5, 77–9, 83, 89, 92, Esenin, Sergei 126–7 98–9, 104, 125, 142–3, 150, 152, Esra (Biller) 141–55 154, 171, 176, 191, 193 exceptio artis in German law and films, pornography and 100–3 jurisdiction 144–6 Films and Publications Act of 1996 (FPA) institutional autonomy and poetical 80–2 fallacy 149–54 First Amendment 9 Mephisto vs. 146–9 Flammarion 42–3 Essex Sociology of Literature conferences Flaubert, G. 5, 14–15, 23–4, 26 197 trial 30–3 Esther (Grillparzer) 110 Flesh (Warhol) 103 ethics of conviction 27 Formalism 128 ethnicity, literary offences and202 –7 Forster, E.M. 60–1 European Convention on Human Rights Foucault, Michel 7, 24, 26, 64 Article 10 of 118, 120, 163 Fox’s Libel Act 186 Index 221

France Gesellschaft der Münchner Bibliophilen authors prosecution in 21 (Society of Munich-based Book defamation trials in 35, 42–5 Lovers) 113 democracy in 41–5 Girls Lean Back Everywhere (de Grazia) 3 discrimination trials in 42 globalization 206 freedom of expression in 41–5 Goeie Hoop Uitgewers v. CNA and Another free press in 21 70–1 German Occupation 24, 36 Gorky, Maxim 124, 129, 130 obscenity trials in 21, 23, 30–5, 41 governmentalisation 51, 64 political trials in 28–30, 35, 42 graphic novels 204 purge trials in 23, 36–40 Grass, Günter 152 Franco-Prussian War 33 Griffith-Jones, Melvin196 Frankfurter Schule 152 Grillparzer, Franz 110 Fraser, Hugh 54, 55 Gringoire 39 freedom of expression 21, 29, 41–5, 50, 73, Griswold, Wendy 199 107, 118–19, 164–6, 169, 171, 181, grotesque 108, 112–13 206–7, 209 Gründgens, Gustaf 146–7 free indirect style 26, 31 Grüttemeier, Ralf 50, 91, 176, 191–2 free press 11, 21–3, 25, 28, 33, 107, 181 Guardian 6, 180–4, 187–8, 202 Freie Bühne (Free Stage) 109 Guardian News & Media Limited 181 Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle 102 Guggenheimer wast witter (Brusselmans) Frere, Stewart 52 159 Frey, Alexander Moritz 108 guilty knowledge 59 Frimmel, Sandra 132 Gysen, René 98 ‘The Fugitives’ (Themba)70 , 73–4 Fülöp-Miller, René 126 Haasse, Hella 100–2 Hageman, Janna G. 97 G. W. Hardy v. Rex 71 Hall, Stuart 197, 202 Gadamer, Hans-Georg 150 Handyside vs. United Kingdom 119 Gangreen I. Black Venus (Geeraerts) 161 Hartley, Jenny 199 Garnett, Evans and Co. 52 Hartsuiker, J.F. 95–7, 99 Gay News 195, 205 Hauptmann, Gerhard 109–10 gay sexuality 202 Hawkes, Terence 197–8 Geeraerts, Jef 159, 161 Hebbel, Friedrich 110 General Mercier 36 Heinemann, William 52 gens de lettres of the Encyclopédie (Voltaire) Herabwürdigung religiöser Lehren 117 29 Herbert, Alan P. 54–5 German Penal Code (Strafgesetzbuch für Herbst, Alban Nicolai 143 das Deutsche Reich) 116 Hermans, W.F. 89, 98 Germany Hermant, Abel 37, 39 blasphemy trials 6, 115–17 hermeneutics, performativity and 129–32 constitution status on art/literature 9–10 Herodotus 1 defamation trials 143, 146–50 Herold-Paquis, Jean 36 exceptio artis in German law and Het buitensporige seksuele genie van jurisdiction 144–6 Markies De Sade 100 institutional autonomy and poetical Het Sadistische Universum (Hermans) (The fallacy in 149–54 Sadistic Universe 1964) 98 Nazi dictatorship 11 Heyse, Paul 110 222 Index

Hicklin test 13, 73, 196 Irish censorship 83, 191 Highmore, Julie 200 irony 184, 186, 188 Hilliard, Christopher 196 Islam 205–6 Historische Kranten (Historical Papers) 93 isolated-passage criterion 73–4, 76 Hitler, Adolf 204 Isorni, Jacques 38 Hodgson, Nichi 194 Hoffmann-Riem143 Jarndyce v. Jarndyce 210 Höfgen, Hendrik 146–7 Jarvis, M. 16 Hofoper (Royal Opera) 110 Jauß, Hans Robert 31 Hoggart, Richard 196–8 Jelinek, Elfriede 108 Hohmann-Dennhardt 143, 151–3 Jenkins, Joylon 204 homology 12, 15, 92 Jenkins, Roy 54–5 Hough, Graham 197 on Obscene Publications Act 59, 63 House of Commons 49, 53, 55, 56, 57, 63 Jerry Springer: the Opera 205 House of Film 128 Johannes (Sudermann) 110 Hudson, Anthony 181 John, Sir Elton 6, 180–8 Hugo, Victor 29 Johns-Gorlin, Nicolas 42 Human Rights Act (1998) 207 Johnson, Boris 183 Humo 169 John Stevas, Norman St. 55 Hutchinson and Co. 52 Joyce, James 179 Huxley, Aldus 179 Judaism 205 Hyde, H.M. 53 judicial abuse 2 Hyde, Marina 181–3, 185, 187–8 Judith (Hebbel) 110 Justine (de Sade) 97, 98 Ik heb altijd gelijk (Hermans) 89, 98 Ik Jan Cremer (Cremer) 91 Kant, Immanuel 150 Illusions perdues (Balzac) 27 Kantian morality 22 The Image and the Search (Baxter) 52, 53 Kauffmann, Stanley 51 image as deed 134–7 Kearns, Paul 193 immoral writings 26 Kellertheater Experiment 113 informal reading clubs 199 Kempker, Birgit 143 Innsbruck Court of Appeal Kennis van die Aand (Brink) 70, 74, 77–8 (Oberlandesgericht) 117 Kershaw, Anthony 59 Innsbruck’s regional court (Landesgericht) keukenmeidenromannetjes (pulp novels) 117–18 93 institutional autonomy 9, 11–13, 23, 62, 66, Khomeini, Ayatollah 206 72–5, 77–80, 82–3, 146–9, 154–5, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 141 161, 164, 171–2, 176–7 Kirkup, James 195 and poetical fallacy 149–54 Knoedler, Roland 15 intellectuals, punishments of 36–7 Knuller v. DPP 202 intelligence with the enemy 23, 36 Komrij, Gerrit 166 intentionality Königliches Schauspielhaus (Royal Theatre) intention of the author 41, 44, 59, 89, 110 90, 99, 100, 101, 166, 171, 178 Koranic law 207 intention of the legislator 144 Kossmann, Alfred 98 intention of the potential offender58 –9, Kousbroek, Rudi 98 71 Kreutzer Sonata (Tolstoy) 130 intention of the text 90, 100 Kritik der Urteilskraft (Kant) 150 Index 223

Kronhausen, Eberhard 95 Leroux, Etienne 70, 77, 79 Kronhausen, Phyllis 95 Les Décombres (Rebatet) 38 Kubin, Alfred 108, 113 Les Fleurs du mal (Baudelaire) 24, 30 Kubrin, Charis E. 3 Les Petits (Angot) 5, 43 Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie LaCapra, Dominick 30 (Diderot) 24 Ladenson, Elisabeth 31 Lewis, Felice Flanery 13 Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial 6, 13, 14, Lewis, Wyndham 179 191–2, 194, 195 L’Homme en amour (Lemonnier) 160–1 changes in critical readership 198–202 Libel Act (1843) 6, 179, 182 ethnicity and 202–7 libel trials and Obscene Publications Act 49–50 in the UK 177–9, 180–8 race and 202–7 Libridis 163 religion and 202–7 Liebeskonzil. See Das Liebeskonzil rise of cultural studies 195–8 Liesbeth en de wereld van Bob en Daphne taking a joke 207–10 (Aalberse) 91 Lambton, Viscount 54, 55, 58 Life of Brian (Monty Python) 209 on Obscene Publications Act 60 likely reader. See readership L’Amour, roman (Laurens) 43 Lindon, Mathieu 42 lampoon genre 28–30 literary autonomy 23, 32, 41, 44–5, 49, 55, Landgericht München 142 56, 62, 65–6 Lane, Allan 196, 197 literary experts 2–4, 7, 10, 52, 61, 71–7, 79, Lanoye, Tom 162, 164, 166 81, 142–3, 149, 151–4, 176–7 La Question (Alleg) 41 literary merit 10, 41, 49, 56, 62–3, 71, 77, La Réforme intellectuelle et morale (Renan) 81 38 and Obscene Publications Act 11 La Responsabilité (Fauconnet) 21 literary modernism 179 Laros, Ted 50, 176, 191–2 Literary Review 194 Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby) 176 The Literature Police (McDonald) 177 Latham, Sean 179 Literaturnaja gazeta 128 La Trahison des clercs (Benda) 38 Literatuur en moderniteit in Nederland Laurens, Camille 43 (Ruiter, Smulders) 91 Law Commission 206 lois de Serre of 1819 21 law of obscenity 58 Lombroso, Cesare 34 Lawrence, D.H. 179 London Comedy Store 208 learned readerships 26. See also readership Lord Campbell 12–13 Leavis, F.R. 197 Lord Campbell’s Act. See Obscene l’écriture 41 Publications Act of 1857 legal experts, and literary scholars 4, Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) 204 149–54 Lord Horror (Britton) 14, 203–5 legal responsibility 21–2. See also Lotman, Yurij 135 responsibility ‘The Love Council’114 Le Goff, Jacques22 Lukács, George 150 Le Marché des amants (Angot) 44 Lunacharsky, Anatoly 130 Lemonnier, Camille 5, 160–1 L’Enfer (Barbusse) 90 Madame Bovary (Flaubert) 23–4, 30–1 Le Pen, Jean-Marie 42 Magersfontein, O Magersfontein! (Leroux) Le Procès de Jean-Marie Le Pen (Lindon) 42 70, 77, 79 224 Index

Mail on Sunday 199 national indignity 36 Mandela, Nelson 180–3 national moralism 32–5 Mandelstam, Osip 128, 129 national treason 36–40 The Man in Control (McGraw) 52 Naujoks, Gerrit 93, 95–6 Mann, Klaus 143, 146 Nazi dictatorship 11 Mann, Thomas108 Nazi Germany 146 Man of Nazareth (Burgess) 80 Nazi ideology 204 Marais, J.F. 70 Nazism 204 Margin of Appreciation 119 Netherlands Maria von Magdala (Heyse) 110 blasphemy trials in 89–90 Mariengof, Anatoli 126 defamation trials in 89 Marlborough Street Magistrate Court 52 discrimination trials in 89–90 Marxism-Leninism 123 exceptio artis in Dutch law and Marxist concept of criticism 128 jurisdiction 90–1 Masscheroen (Claus) 161 Fanny Hill trial 91 Maurras, Charles 37 and films with pornographic material Mayhew, Sir Patrick 193 100–3 McCormack, William 181 judicial policy concerning pornography McDonald, Peter D. 16, 50, 57 93–4 on Obscene Publications Act 63 obscenity trials in 90–104 McDonnell, Terry 199 and performances 99–100 McGraw, Charles 52 pornographic literature 91–2 McNally, Terrence 108 and pornographic publications 94–9 Meeter, W.D. 97 New Accents monograph series 197 Meere (Herbst) 143 New Criticism 178 Meng and Ecker No.1 (Britton and Guidio) New York Herald 15 203–4 Nicolson, Nigel 55, 59 Mengele, Josef 204 Nielson, Erik 2–3 Mephisto (Mann) 143, 146, 147, 149–50 nihilism 134 Mephisto vs. Esra 146–9 Nordau, Max 34 The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) 210 North-Holland Archives 93 mere pornography 49 The North Oxford Literary Society200 metonymy 24 nouveau roman 41, 44 Meyerhold, Vsevolod 128 Noys, Benjamin 204 Meyrink, Gustav 108 NV Keurboekerij 95 Middlemarch (George Eliot) 201 Millar, Gavin 181 Oberverwaltungsgericht (Higher Miller, Henry 41 Administrative Court) 109–10 Mix, York-Gothart 142, 152–3 objectivity 21 mock trials 128 and French law on freedom of press 22 Moeyaert, Bart 166 Obscene Publications Act of 1857 6, 10, 12, moral complicity 21 49, 62, 65, 176 moral contagion 26 Obscene Publications Act of 1892 71 Müller v. Switzerland 119 Obscene Publications Act (OPA) of 1959 multiculturalism 210 6, 7, 10–13, 16, 49–66, 73, 176, 188, 193, 204 Nabokov, Vladimir 55, 156 British classics exemption from 13 Nader tot U (Reve) 90 censorship 59–62 Index 225

criterion of intention 58–9 perlocutionary speech acts 130 introduction of 10, 51–6, 193 personal rights 43–4, 141–9, 151, 155, 162, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial 49–50 180–8 legal framework of literature 57–8 Pétain, Marshal 39 and literary merit 11 Petersen, Peter Jes 113 suppression of pornography 56–7 Petley, Julian 203 obscenity trials The Philanderer (Kauffmann) 51, 53 in Belgium 160–1, 172 The Philanderer trial 57, 58 in France 21, 23, 30–5, 41 Phoenician Women 1 in the Netherlands 90–104 Phrynichus 1–2 in the UK 6, 13, 14, 51–2, 191–2, 194–5 pikante romannetjes (spicy novels) 94 in the USA 95 Pilniak, Boris 128 Obscenity Act 11, 203 Pinard, Pierre Ernest 30–1 Oedipus (Sophocles) 1 Plastic People of the Universe 133–4 Oh! Calcutta! 93, 99–100 Plato 26, 150 Ohio State University Press 200 poetical fallacy, institutional autonomy and Ohmer, Astrid 142–3, 153 149–54 OK! 183 Pogrom (Bénier-Burckel) 42 Olesha, Yuri 128 poison, as a metaphor 26 OLG München 142 Polak, C.H.F. 93 Oliver Twist (Dickens) 210 political trials Orange telecommunications company 199 in Czechoslovakia 133–4 Ostorozhno religiya 132 in France 23, 28–30, 35, 36–40, 42 Otchakovski-Laurens, Paul 42 in Russia 133, 135–7 Otto-Preminger-Institut für audiovisuelle in the Soviet Union 126–9 Mediengestaltung 117–19 Pope Alexander VI 111 Otto-Preminger-Institut vs. Austria 119 Popetown 108 Out for the Count 200 popular culture 92, 93, 134, 195, 197–8, Overbeek, W.H. 93–4 200 Pornografie voor het gerecht (Pornography Pall Mall Gazette 13 in Court 1966, Overbeek) 93 Pamjatnik nauchnoj oshibke (Monument to pornography 49, 56–7, 125, 193 a Scientific Error) (Shklovsky)128 book publications and 94–9 Panizza, Oskar 6, 107–9, 111–17 films and 100–3 Pappot, Gemma 98 judicial policy concerning, in Parlamentarische Rat 144 Netherlands 93–4 Passion of Christ 110 performances and 99–100 Pasternak, Boris 128, 133 Pornography and the Law (Kronhausen) 95 Paulhan, Jean 40 Portrait of Dorian Gray (Wilde) 32 Pauvert, Jean-Jacques 41 power-knowledge 64 PCB v. Republican Publications 76, 77–8 Pravda (the press) 127, 128 Peacock, Michael 194 Prescher, Hans 113 The Pearl 97 preventive censorship 163, 169 Penguin 197 Programma Spiegels Radio 5 Nederland 168 People’s Commissar 127 Prometheus (publisher) 163 performances, and pornography 99–100 Publications Act of 1974 (PA) 75–6 performativity 15 Publications Amendment Act of 1978 79, and hermeneutics 129–32 80 226 Index

Publications and Entertainments Act of Renaissance court 111 1963 (PEA) 72–3 Renan, Ernest 38 replaced by Publications Act of 1974 Republic of Letters 177 75–6 resemblance 24 and sexually explicit literature 74 responsibility Publications Appeal Board (PAB) 76–7 objective responsibility 21–3, 25–6, 28, Publications Control Board 74, 80 30, 32–4, 36, 38, 41–2, 44 public good 176–7 subjective responsibility 21–4, 26, 29, public morality 21, 32–3 30, 34, 36–7, 39, 40, 42, 44, 168 and exceptio artis 62–6 Reve, Gerard 89–90 and sexuality 64 Rex v. Meinert 70, 71–2, 81 Public Order Act of 1936 208 Rex v. Shaw 70 Pure Fiction (Highmore) 200–2 Rex v. Webb 70 pure pornography 49. See also pornography Rhys, Jean 179 purge trials 23, 36–40 ridicule of the judiciary 4, 55, 191, 209–10 Pussy Riot 5, 133, 135 Robertson, Geoffrey 204 Python, Monty 209 Rochelle, Pierre Drieu La 39 suicide 40 Queen v. de Jong 71 roman à clef 146, 179 roman à these 30 R. v. Britton & Butterworth 203 Roman Catholic Church 117 R. v. Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Rooyen, J.C.W. van 79–81 Magistrate 205, 206 Rose Bonbon (Johns-Gorlin) 42 R. v. Hicklin 196 Royal Courts of Justice 181, 188 R. v. Peacock 194 Rushdie, Salman 5, 81–2, 195, 205, 206–7 R. v. Penguin 205 Russia R. v. Penguin Books 193, 196 political trials in 133, 135–7 R. v. Webb 72 Russian Duma 137 race, literary offences and 202–7 Race Relations Act 204, 205 Salines, Antonio 114 Racial and Religious Hatred Act 6, 207 Samkalden, I. 93 Rademakers, Jef 167 Samodurov, Yuri 135 Rancière, Jean 193 Santmyer, Helen Hooven 199–200 rap music lyrics Sapiro, Gisèle 50 as art form 3 Sartre, Jean-Paul 40, 152 used as evidence, in judicial trials 2 concept of responsibility 40 Rappaport, Roland 44 The Satanic Verses (Rushdie) 5, 6, 81–2, readership 26, 73–6, 78–9, 125 195, 205, 206 Realism, Socialist 130, 132 Savoy Books 203 Rebatet, Lucien 37, 38 The Scandal of Art (Latham) 179 Reichsgericht 144 Schabelitz, Jakob 108 relative autonomy of literature 11–12, 14, Schlebusch, Alwyn 79 23, 62, 78, 125, 145, 148–50, 154, Schoeters, I. 168 160–1, 170–2 scholasticism 177, 188 religion Scholten, Y. 93 Lady Chatterley trial and 202–7 Schroeter, Werner 114, 117 literary offences and202 –7 Schuller, J.C. 100 religiously-based jurisprudence 206 Schund 91 Index 227 science, autonomy of 9 Spectator 52 Searle, John R. 7 Stalin, Josef 128, 129 Secker and Warburg 51 Standaard (bookshop) 163 Second Empire 30–2 Standaard Uitgeverij 163 Second World War 23, 24, 36, 144, 146, 206 Stein, Erwin 146–7 Secret Policeman’s Ball 208 Steward, Antwain 2 secret trials 128, 131 strong readers 73. See also readership Seiler, Bernd W. 145 Struycken, A.A.M. 93 Selby, Hubert 176 Sudermann, Hermann 110 Select Committee 13, 54 ‘Sud idet’ (Sinyavsky) 123 Senard, Antoine 30–2 September in Quinze (Connell) 51–2, 53 Taylor, Garnett, Evans and Co. 52 September in Quinze trial 58 Ten Minute Rule 54 servility 39 Ter’Oganjan, Avdej 135 Shershenevich, Vadim 126 Textual Practice 197 Shklovsky, Viktor 128 theatre, censorship in 21 show trials 131 Theatro Belli 114 Shumyatsky, Boris 128 thematization of religion 75 Sikhism 205 Themba, Can 70, 73 Sinyavsky, Andrei 123–6, 129 Theobald, Mathew60 Sitwell, Osbert 179 theories of literature 12–17 Smith, Wilbur 5, 70, 73 autonomist conception of 80, 90 Snelders, Nico 163 expressive conception of 152 Snyman, J.H. 76–7, 79 idealist aesthetics 13–14, 91–2, 98, Sobornoye Ulozheniye (Legal Code) 131–2 103–4, 150–3 Social Realism 15, 130, 132, 134 mimetic conception of 102, 152 in literature 125 pragmatic conception of 80, 103, 152 Société des gens de lettres 41 Theory of the Novel (Lukács) 150 Society of Authors 49, 55 Third Republic32 –5 Soethoudt, Walter 98 Thompson, Ogilvie76 –7 Sophocles 1 The Times 51 Sous-Offs (Descaves) 33 Tolstoy, Lev 130 South Africa Tort Law (Markesinis and Deakin) 186 artistic freedom of literature 82 totalitarian culture 131 censorship of literature 69, 72–3, 75–7 tovarishcheskie sudy (comrade trials) 127 exceptio artis in South Africa law and tragedy jurisdiction 73–5, 73–83 intense emotion in 1 judicial treatment of literature in 69 safe distance in 1 legal autonomy for literature in 70–2, Tretyakov, Sergei 128, 129 76 Trial against the Imaginists (Sud nad Obscene Publications Act of 1892 71 Imazhinistami) 126 Publications Act of 1974 (PA) 75–6 Trial of the Imaginists against Russian Publications and Entertainments Act of literature (Sud imazhinistov nad 1963 72–3 literaturoj) 127 Sovetskoe Kino 128 Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris 42, Soviet Union 43 performativity and hermeneutics 129–32 Tropic of Cancer (Miller) 41 political trials in 126–9 Tropic of Capricorn (Miller) 41 228 Index

Tugendhat 181–8 Vestdijk, Simon 102 Twain Gotti. See Steward, Antwain Viking Penguin 205 Voltaire 29, 35 Uitgeverij Guggenheimer (Brusselmans) Volzhskij, Alexander 127 159–72 von Arnauld, Andreas 120 appeal against the injunction 164–7 von Becker, Bernard 147 ban on 162–4 von Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald 110 main proceedings 167–70 Von der wunderbarlichen arztney des holtz UK Guaiacum genant, und wie man die and autonomy for literature 10–11, Frantzosen oder blatteren heilen sol 49–51, 56–7, 65–6, 73, 176, 191–2 (von Hutten) 111 and blasphemy laws 6, 191, 195, 202–7 von Hutten, Ulrich 111 blasphemy trials in 195, 202–7 Voorhoof, Dirk 163, 170 discrimination trials in 207–9 Vvedensky, Alexander 128 introduction of Obscene Publications Vyshinsky 131 Act 10, 51–6, 193 libel trials in 177–9, 180–8 Wahrheit und Methode (Gadamer) 150 obscenity trials in 6, 13, 14, 51–2, Warhol, Andy 103 191–2, 194–5 Waterdrinker, Pieter 10, 90 Ulysses (Joyce) 60, 179 Webb, Katherine 52 Union of Filmmakers 128 Weber, Max 27, 30 Union of Writers 127, 128 Weekend 184, 185 University of Birmingham 197 Weidenfeld and Nicolson 61 University of Gent 163 Wenn ich einmal reich und tot bin (Biller) unzüchtige Schriften (lascivious writings) 141 116 What is Art? (Tolstoy) 130 USA When the Lion Feeds (Smith) 70, 73–4 obscenity trials in 95 Whitehouse v. Lemon 195, 206 rap trials in 2–3 Wilde, Oscar 32, 152, 179 The Uses of Literacy (Hoggart) 197 Wildean aestheticism 179 Willems, Eric 164 van Agt, A.A.M. 93 William Heinemann ( company) van der Mussele, Eric 166, 170 52 van Emde Boas, C. 94 Williams, Bernard 176, 188 van Gogh, Theo 89 Wittstock, Uwe 142 van Overloop, Ilse 166 work as a whole 54, 71, 73, 76–7, 79, 80, van Paemel, Monika 159, 162 91 van Rees, Kees 50 Wouters, D. 163 van Renesse, H.E. 95–6 Wright, Nathan 199 van Rooyen, J.C.W 79–81 writers. See authors Vanstraelen, I. 163 van Thal, Herbert52 youth protection 41–2, 44, 95 van Wyk 74–5, 78, 80 age restriction 80–2, 101–2 Verhulst, Dimitri 161, 171 Verlags-Magazin 108 Zapretnoe iskusstvo 133 Verschuren, N. 168 Zingl, Dietmar 117–18 Verstappen, Wim 101–3 Zola, Emile 32, 34–5, 40, 152