Hunt Steinle, P, 2002. The Catcher Controversies as a Cultural debate, and The Question of Innocence in, In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Controversies and Postwar American Character. 1st ed. Columbus: Ohio State University.
This source offers a general overview of The Catcher in the Rye’s censorship. It was published in 2002 by the Ohio State University Press, which suggests that this is a reputable source. It also provides a bibliography which shows that Steinle gathered scholarly information in the construction of her manuscript. In Cold Fear gives …show more content…
It is a peer-reviewed journal article and provides bibliographical evidence, highlighting its reliability. It is a useful source which offers a contrasting opinion to other sources, arguing that unrestricted access to all literature is a basic right. Nevertheless, it is somewhat biased as it is written from a modern perspective, thus does not take into account contributing factors regarding the censorship of Catcher in the Rye, such as the opinions and the atmosphere of the time.
Sullivan, L 2009, The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioural Sciences
This glossary contains a plethora of useful definitions. Not only does it provide a clear and concise definition of the word ‘censorship’, but it also offers a number of other useful definitions, such as ‘freedom of press’ and ‘freedom of information’. Nevertheless, this source is limited in a number of ways, for example it is a glossary of social and behavioural sciences, as opposed to literary terms; a field which is in some ways similar; however is also in many ways different. It was also published in 2009 suggesting that some of this information may be out of