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'A history of book censorship in Australia - what we couldn't read, didn't read, didn't know, and why we didn't.
'For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses.
'The Censor's Library is the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, based around the author's discovery of the secret 'censor's library' in the National Archive - 793 boxes of banned books, prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s.
'As it has for much of Australia's history, censorship continues to attract heated debate, from the Henson affair to the national internet feed. But federal publications censorship has been a largely secret affair for most of the century, deliberately kept from the knowledge of the public.
'The Censor's Library is a provocative account of this scandalous history. Combining scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, Nicole Moore exposes the secret history of censorship in Australia.'
Source: Penguin website, http://www.penguin.com.au/
Sighted: 28/11/2011
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Launched by Angela Woollacott at Paperchain Bookstore, Manuka, Australian Capital Territory, 27 March 2012.
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See the AustLit-supported Banned in Australia project, which underpinned some of the research for this work.
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[Review] The Censor's Library : Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books
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— Appears in: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies , vol. 17 no. 1 2015; (p. 152-154)
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Review of The Censor’s Library by Nicole Moore
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 7 no. 1 2014;
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Review : The Censor's Library : Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books.
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June vol. 38 no. 2 2014; (p. 247-249)
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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 99-102)
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2011/12 vol. 91 no. 6 2011; (p. 34)
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The Seamy Side of the Curtain
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 March 2012; (p. 31)
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Contains Adult Themes
2012
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 17 March 2012; (p. 26) The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 March 2012; (p. 32-33)
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Non Fiction
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 - 25 March 2012; (p. 23)
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Society : The Censor's Library
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 1 April 2012; (p. 19)
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In Days of Old When Books Were Bold and Censors Weren't Contented
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Sex and the City : New Novels by Women and Middlebrow Culture at Mid-Century
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October-November vol. 27 no. 3/4 2012; (p. 1-12) 'Central to developments in Australian literature during the period from the end of Second World War until the mid-1960s - what might be called the 'long 1950s' - was the emergence of the kind of modernist novel written by Patrick White as the benchmark of modern fiction. This was the outcome of a struggle among opinion-makers in the literary field, which during this period came to be dominated for the first time by academic critics. They, by and large, favoured the new forms of postwar modernism and rejected that literary nationalism which had drawn the loyalty of most influential writers during the 1930s and 940s.' (Author's introduction)
Awards
- 2013 winner ASAL Awards — Walter McRae Russell Award
- 2013 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — History Book Award
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