Michael Goodman's "Contemporary Literary Censorship: The Case History of Burroughs' Naked Lunch" (1981)

Metuchen, New Jersey, US: The Scarecrow Press (book, history), 1981.
8.75" x 5.75" x 0.875", 330 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 0-8108-1398-X.

Contemporary Literary Censorship: The Case History of Burroughs' Naked Lunch by Michael Barry Goodman, as published in hardcover by The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (Metuchen, New Jersey, US and London, England) in 1981. This is an important work of scholarship describing the political and legal history of Naked Lunch.

This copy is signed by the author.

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Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. "Naked Lunch and Olympia Press"
• 2. "Naked Lunch and the Chicago Review"
• 3. "Big Table, Burroughs, and the Post Office"
• 4. "Big Table Obscenity Hearing"
• "Part I"
• "Part II"
• 5. "The Decisions of the Post Office"
• 6. "Appeal and Decision in Federal Court"
• 7. "The Customs Censorship of Naked Lunch"
• 8. "Burroughs and the Writing of Naked Lunch"
• 9. "The Grove Press Publication"
• 10. "Writers' Conference, Controversy, an Edition in Print"
• 11. "Critical Reception"
• 12. "Banned in Boston: The Trial of Naked Lunch"
• "Part I"
• "Part II"
• "Part III"
• 13. "Censorship in Los Angeles"
• 14. "Decision in Boston"
• 15. "Naked Lunch after 1966: The Last of the Obscene"
• Chapter Notes
• References
• Index