what do publishers' revisions and content warnings say about the moral purpose of literature?
- Written by Dan Dixon, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.Wikimedia CommonsThis year, there has been some controversy about the rewriting of passages from authors such as Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie with the aim of removing potentially offensive material. Some publishers have also adopted the precautionary measure of adding...

















