Bowdlerization

bowdlerization English Noun ~ en bowdlerization. en The Pestiferous Emasculation Theodore F. Bonnet Town Talk San Francisco, Calif. Town Talk Publishing Co. 21 November 1903 7 https://archive.org/details/town1112sanf/page/n690/mode/1up 1 We have had adaptations of Dickens and Scott, and even George Eliot, for children, and Bowdlerizations of the Arabian Nights and the popular fairy tales. en w:Jethro Bithell Note Contemporary French Poetry. Selected and Translatedby Jethro Bithell. The Canterbury Poets London;Felling-on-Tyne; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic. 1 The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. 1912 lxxxi https://archive.org/details/contemporaryfren00bithuoft/page/n84/mode/1up For other Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers and their editor are responsible. en Bithell, Jethro, sel. and tr. Contemporary French Poetry.London, Scott, 1912. lxxxii, 227 pp. George B. Parks; Ruth Z. Temple The Romance Literatures The Literatures of the World in English Translation: A Bibliography III part 2 (French Literature) New York, N.Y. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1970 section “French Literature, General”, subsection “Nineteenth Century”, subsubsection “Collections” 235 https://archive.org/details/romanceliteratur3-2park/page/235/mode/1up 0-8044-3239-2 Translator notes that for Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers are responsible. en Halstead, William P., comp. Statistical History of Acting Editions of Shakespeare.Volumes 13 and 14. Supplement to Shakespeare as Spoken. Washington, D. C.: University Press of America, for the American Theatre Association, 1983. James A. Moore Richard III: An Annotated Bibliography The Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies, 11; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 425 New York, N.Y.; London Garland Publishing, Inc. 1986 section “Influence; Adaptations; Parodies; Synopses” 766 https://archive.org/details/richardiiiannota0000moor/page/766/mode/1up Part II begins with discussions on doubling of roles, Bowdlerizations, theatre promptbooks, actor-adapters, male domination, repertory companies, copying errors in collation, and detail of methodology. en John Boardman Counterpoint APA-Filk 38 Brooklyn, N.Y. May 1988 4 https://archive.org/details/APA-Filk-May-1988/page/n11/mode/1up (re hymnal revisions - or Bowdlerizations, if you like) I believe the Episcopalians are also dropping Onward Christian Soldiers because of its militarism. en w:Mary Heimann Familiar Prayers Catholic Devotion in Victorian England w:Oxford Historical Monographs Oxford, Oxon Clarendon Press 1995 86 https://archive.org/details/catholicdevotion0000heim/page/86/mode/1up 0-19-820597-X But just as Bowdlerizations of Shakespeare seem, from a late twentieth-century perspective, to have lost something essential to the genius of the original, so nineteenth-century alterations to The Garden of the Soul may seem to us to have damaged the integrity of Challoner’s message. en w:Roy Porter Is Foucault Useful for Understanding Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sexuality? Nikki R[eichard] Keddie Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality New York, N.Y.; London w:New York University Press 1996 section II (Sexuality: Freud, Foucault, and After), subsection A (Foucault and Sexuality) 261 https://archive.org/details/debatinggenderde0000unse/page/261/mode/1up 0-8147-4654-3 Disregard a score of notorious exceptions — Pepys, Boswell, Casanova — and we encounter a blanket of silence, or at least of self-censorship, magnified by the indefatigable excisions and Bowdlerizations of subsequent editors. en H.A. McKay Aichele, George (ed.), Culture, Entertainment and the Bible(JSOTSup, 309; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), pp. 229. £46.00. ISBN 1-84127-075-X. w:Society for Old Testament Study George J[ohn] Brooke Book List 2001 Sheffield, South Yorkshire w:Sheffield Academic Press 2001 section 1 (General) 1–2 https://archive.org/details/booklist20012001soci/page/2/mode/1up 1-84127-206-X Phyllis Silverman Kramer’s ‘Rahab: From Peshat to Pedagogy, or: The Many Faces of a Heroine’ discusses Bowdlerizations of Rahab’s story prepared for Jewish pupils. en w:Jeremy Goldkorn [Behind the Great Firewall] The Online Masses Geremie R. Barmé China Story Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse Canberra, A.C.T. Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific 2012 179 https://archive.org/details/red-rising-red-eclipse/ChinaStory2012/page/n202/mode/1up In the Internet age, the expression ‘guided public opinion’ has come to signify a range of propaganda techniques from egregious Bowdlerization of texts to employing an unofficial army of pro-government Internet commentators who are rumoured to be paid the equivalent of fifty Chinese cents per posting and who are therefore dubbed the ‘Fifty-cent Gang’ (see also Chapter 5). en w:Franco Moretti [Introduction: Concepts and Contradictions] ‘The bourgeois is lost . . .’ The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature London; Brooklyn, N.Y. Verso 2013 2014 23 https://archive.org/details/bourgeoisbetween0000more/page/23/mode/1up 978-1-78168-304-0 In both cases, a key ingredient has been the drastic infantilization of the national culture: from the pious idea of ‘family reading’ that launched the Bowdlerization of Victorian literature, to the syrupy replica—the family, smiling at its TV—that has put American entertainment to sleep.