Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds

Author / Editor
Sova, Dawn B.

Title
Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds

Published
New York: Facts on File, 2006.

Physical Description
Rev. ed. xx, 380 pp.

Series
Banned Books.

Description
Surveys 115 books threatened with censorship in the United States because of objections to their social (rather than political, religious, or sexual) depictions. Arranged alphabetically by title of the work, each entry includes a plot summary, a censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. CT is included in the listing, with comments on expurgations and legal proceedings that cite the diction and characterizations in CT as objectionable.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.