The ethics of indecency: censorship, sexuality, and the voice of the academy in the narration of 'Jacob's Room.'

From: Twentieth Century Literature | Date: December 22, 1997| Author: Harris, Susan C. | Copyright information

Virginia Woolf eschewed overt discussion of sexual activity or desire in 'Jacob's Room' while directing the reader to notice the gap left behind by this censorship. This refusal to detail the sexual education of Jacob in the story can be seen as a satirical reaction to Edwardian prudery. More than this, however, the censor aimed not to eradicate sexuality from the novel but to monitor it by forming it into a narrative that can be controlled. Woolf consciously included this censor into the nar...

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