British Modernism And Censorship

　　Government censorship had a profound impact on the development of canonical modernism and on the public images of modernist writers. In British Modernism and Censorship, Celia Marshik argues that censorship can benefit, as well as harm, writers and the works they create in response to it. She weaves together histories of official and unofficial censorship, of individual writers and their relationships to such censorship, and of British modernism. Throughout, Marshik draws on an extraordinary range of evidence, including the files of government agencies and social purity organizations. She analyzes how works were written, revised, published, and performed in relation to this complex web of social forces.