(print) xviii, 321 p. ; 24 cm

Preface. Sexuality in Literature : Toward an Ethics p. ix -- Acknowledgments. p. xvii -- Introduction. The Sense of Censoring p. 1 -- Ch. 1. Censorship : Political and Theoretical Structures p. 23 -- Ch. 2. Circean Censoring : Joyce's Theater of Judgment in Ulysses p. 39 -- Ch. 3. Lolita : American Mimetic Fantasy, Ethical Reading, and Censoring Narrative p. 112 -- Ch. 4. The Masochistic Pleasure of Censoring Modes of Fantasy : Alienation, Cancer, and Judgment in Tiempo de silencio p. 161 -- Ch. 5. Apocalyptic Beauty, Russian Sublimity : Viktor Erofeev's Russkaia krasavitsa p. 215 -- Conclusion. Comparative Reflections p. 268 -- Appendix. Summaries of Novels' Historical Censorship p. 277 -- Works Cited. p. 279 -- Index. p. 309

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