Introduction - the "new" censorship, Richard Burt. Part 1 Criticism, censorship and the early-modern public sphere: "Areopagitica", censorship and the early-modern public sphere, David Norbrook; power and literature - the terms of the exchange 1624-42, Christian Joubaud; flower power - Shakespearean deep bawdy and the botanical perverse, Donald Hedrick, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - policing the aesthetic from the left, Dennis Porter. Part 2 Censorship and modernity: Ulysses on trial - some supplementary reading, Brook Thomas; Whistler vs Ruskin - the courts, the public and modern art, Stuart Culver; Freud and the scene of censorship, Michael G. Levine. Part 3 The new censorship and postmodernity: censoring canons - transitions and prospects of literary institutions in Czechoslovakia, Jirina Smejkalova-Strickland; "Degenerate art" - public aesthetics and the simulation of censorship in post-liberal Los Angeles and Berlin, Richard Burt; the contrast hurts - censoring the "Ladies Liberty" in performance, Timothy Murray; cyborg America - policing the social sublime in "Robocop" and "Robocop 2", Rob Wilson; reading the Rushdie affair - "Islam", cultural politics, form, Aamir Mufti; conclusion - political correctness - the revenge of the liberals, Jeffrey Wallen.
