Journal article
Towards a History of the Phi Collection, 1882-1945
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Conceived in 1882 as a literary ‘Siberia’ in which ‘improper books’ could be kept out of the hands of impressionable undergraduates, in the first decades of the twentieth-century the Bodleian’s ‘Φ’ (Phi) collection served as an ark within which avant-garde writing could weather the storms of obscenity prosecutions and Customs seizures. Despite having held in its time approximately 2,100 obscene and libellous works, the Phi collection has never been the subject of sustained critical scrutiny, ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Bodleian Library Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Bodleian Library Record Journal website
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 179-194
- Publication date:
- 2015-10-01
- ISSN:
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0067-9488
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- English
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- 2018-02-12
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- 2015
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