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Episode 1, The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jessica explains to Christine about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned--a book that was not only banned, it gives a fascinating critique of censorship in the 1920s (plus it's where we got the name of our podcast!).
"The Beautiful and Banned" is produced by Jessica Goudeau and Christine Renee Miller. Follow us on social media: @beautifulandbannedpod, @christinereneemiller, and @jessica_goudeau.
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Special thanks this episode to Mackenzie Brady Watson, Ruthie Ackerman, Caren George, Mandy Pennington, and Wilkes University.
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Tune in next week when we discuss The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison! This is A Sisters By Different Misters Production.
Links to episode 1 quotations and further reading:
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- PEN America poll about the rise of book bans in 2022-2023
- NPR/Ipsos poll about public thinking on book banning
- Further reading on Anthony Comstock
- Further reading on the Comstock Act
- Further reading on Jim Crow Laws
- Scholarly quotation from Tanfer Emin Tunc, "This Side of Sexuality: Reproductive Discourse in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald." The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 13, 2015, p. 184-201. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/604457.
- Special thanks to Beth Widmaier Capo, Matthew Broccoli, Linda C Pelzer, and many others, particularly in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, whose scholarship informed our thinking in this episode.
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