“Susan Mooney’s excellent book is a valuable contribution to current criticism on the ethics of reading. Her research is exhaustive and her analysis deeply satisfying. I found this book to be well conceived, superbly researched, convincingly argued, and richly suggestive: a work of sound scholarship that has deep implication for the way we read and think about twentieth-century fiction.”—Sebastian D. G. Knowles, professor of English, The Ohio State University

Contents
Preface: Sexuality in Literature: Toward an Ethics
Acknowledgments 
Introduction.	The Sense of Censoring 
Chapter 1.	Censorship: Political and Theoretical Structures
Chapter 2.	Circean Censoring: Joyce¿s Theatre of Judgment in Ulysses 
Chapter 3.	Lolita: American Mimetic Fantasy, Ethical Reading, and Censoring Narrative 
Chapter 4.	The Masochistic Pleasure of Censoring Modes of Fantasy: Alienation, Cancer, and Judgment in Tiempo de silencio 
Chapter 5.	Apocalyptic Beauty, Russian Sublimity: Viktor Erofeev¿s Russkaia krasavitsa
Chapter 6.	Conclusion. Comparative Reflections
Appendix.	Summaries of Novels¿ Historical Censorship
Works Cited 
Index