120 Banned Books, Second Edition: Censorship Histories of World Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Karolides, Nicholas J., Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova.
120 Banned Books, Second Edition: Censorship Histories of World Literature.
- Published
- New York: Facts on File, 2011.
- Physical Description
- viii, 560 pp.
- Description
- Originally published in 2005. Treats CT (pp. 474-77) in a section called "Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds," describing the pilgrimage and the social variety of the pilgrims, claiming that "Risqué language and sexual innuendo pervade most of the tales," and summarizing the censorship history of the work in the USA, from the expurgated 1908 edition to the impact of the "Red Scare" in 1953 (because illustrator Rockwell Kent was charged as a communist), to later court proceedings concerned with sex and scatology (1986-95).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
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