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Obscenity, Literary Censorship, and Queer British Fiction
Author · Bloomsbury
A study of mid-twentieth-century queer fiction as both text and book object. Drawing on the archives of publishers, authors, literary agents and editors, it examines how post-war British publishing "toned down" queer novels — through dust jackets, marketing and distribution — and reads these books as sites of both containment and resistance. Covers works by Denton Welch, Francis King, Mary Renault, Martyn Goff and Gore Vidal, the censorship accusations against W. H. Smith, and the obscenity trial of The Well of Loneliness.
"Could you make it rather more of a He and She picture"
Article · Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 116 no. 4 (December 2022)
"Queer Texts and Dust Jackets in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Fiction." On the visual and material packaging of queer novels and the negotiations behind their cover art.