Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

Anthony Comstock’s Moral Crusade

Special Interest Jan 27, 2023 32 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection

S1 E5: Meet Anthony Comstock, the relentless late-19th-century enforcer of Victorian codes of sexual propriety. His decades-long crusade for moral purity gave us a new term for censorship and his influence shaped the history of censorship in the United States—including the arrests, suicides, and destruction he proudly claimed as part of his legacy.

Special Interest Jan 27, 2023 32 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2023
Run Time: 32 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.