PAID 111 Section 08 - Travers (Fall 2025)

The definitive source for all things related to music. Available in print, online, and through Grove Music online.

Supplement III, James M. Barrie to Mary Wollstonecraft

Print + ebook

Focuses on the entire range of philosophic and social changes engendered by the Enlightenment. The Encyclopedia extends the conventional geographical boundaries of the Enlightenment, covering not only France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, Italy, English-speaking North America, the German states, and Hapsburg Austria but also Iberian, Ibero-American, Jewish, Russian, and Eastern European cultures.

Also available in print: Ref E169.12 .A419 1994 v.6-8

Contains articles that provide information about various forms, genres, or themes of popular culture, and includes illustrations, photo essays, a chronological survey of each topic's history, and a comprehensive index.

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political censorship was even applied to ancient Greek dramas during the Nazi occupation in 1942. Political suppression also occurs in the name of "security" and the safeguarding of official secrets, and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles.

Examines the history and issues surrounding more than one hundred works challenged for sexual content, including "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron, "Sex" by Madonna, and "Forever" by Judy Blume.

Examines the history and issues surrounding works banned because they contained language or ideas unacceptable to a religion, state, or moral standard, including "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, "The Giver" by Louis Lowry, and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.