Of Scandal and Censorship
An Analysis of banned books
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The First Amendment.
The Censorship
of Oscar Wilde
While the United Kingdom's Labouchere
amendment of 1885 was the cause of Oscar
Wilde's imprisonment and the weight behind over
500 words being removed from "The Picture of
Dorian Gray," it was The United States' first
amendment of the Constitution that supported
Wilde's words be republished in 2012 without
censorship or supression. Phrases in the original
text deemed immoral were condemned by the
J.B. Lippincott publishing company and removed
by Wilde before being published in 1895
(Wilde 4). After nearly 120 years, Oscar Wilde's
original masterpierce has been republished under
the protection of the third article of The
Constitution; The First Amendment.
