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• Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), ed. by Frederick J. Antczak (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Poethical Wager (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Joan Retallack (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Responsibility of the Artist, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Sex expression in literature (Boni & Liveright, 1926), by V. F. Calverton and Harry Elmer Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitivism and decadence : a study of American experimental poetry. (Arrow Editions, 1937), by Yvor Winters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du roman et du théatre contemporains et de leur influence sur les moeurs par m. Eugène Poitou ... (A. Durand, 1858), by Eugene Poitou (page images at HathiTrust)
• God in human thought; or, Natural theology traced in literature, ancient and modern, to the time of Bishop Butler. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874), by E. H. Gillett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral measure of literature (A. Swallow, 1961), by Keith Ferguson McKean (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ethics of literary art the Carew lectures for 1893, Hartford Theological Seminary (Hartford Seminary Press, 1893), by Maurice Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voprosy religii i morali v russkoĭ khudozhestvennoĭ literaturi͡e (Tip. V. A. Kheĭnkina, 1909), by I︠A︡. N. Ktitarev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The effect of reading on moral conduct and emotional experience (The Catholic university of America press, 1915), by Mary Corde Lorang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du roman et du théatre contemporains et de leur influence sur les moeurs. (A. Durand, 1857), by Eugene Poitou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis Veuillot et les mauvais maîtres des XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe siècles ... (Perrin et cie, 1919), by G 1862- Bontoux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The influence of literature upon society (W. Pearson & co.;, 1835), by Madame de Staël and D. Boileau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morality of fiction; or, An inquiry into the tendency of fictitious narratives, with observations on some of the most eminent. (Printed by Mundell and son, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805), by Hugh Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gefesselte kunst. (H. Walther, 1901), by Leo Berg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• œdipus or Pollyanna, with a note on dramatic censorship (University of Washington book store, 1928), by Barrett H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• La moral en el drama, en la epopeya y en la novela (D. Jorro, 1903), by Lucien Arréat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The influence of literature upon society (Published by W. Wells and T.B. Wait and Co. Sold by them and by C. Williams, Boston; J. Eastburn, New York; and M. Thomas, Philadelphia, 1813), by Madame de Staël and D. Boileau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études de littérature et de morale contemporaines (É. Cornély, 1905), by Georges Pellissier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La morale dans le drame, l'épopée et le roman (F. Alcan, 1884), by Lucien Arréat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letteratura tragica (Fratelli Treves, 1906), by Scipio Sighele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Œdipus or Pollyanna, with a note on dramatic censorship (University of Washington Book Store, 1927), by Barrett H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• La morale dans le drame, l'épopée et le roman (F. Alcan, 1889), by Lucien Arréat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming terror and other essays and letters (United States Book Co., 1891), by Robert Williams Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les livres au jour le jour (V. Retaux, 1908), by Jean Calvet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Littérature et morale : essais et discours (Payot & cie, 1904), by Henri Warnery and Samuel Cornut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theology of modern fiction being the twenty-sixth Fernley lecture delivered in Liverpool, July, 1896 (C.H. Kelley, 1896), by Thomas G. Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts principally from English classics: showing that the legal suppression of M. Zola's novels would logically involve the bowdlerizing of some of the greatest works in English literature. ([s.n.], 1888), by Henry Vizetelly and George Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular literature with reference to infidelity and public morality : a paper (Bemrose & Sons, 1884), by James Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influence de la littérature française de 1830 à 1850 sur l'esprit public et les mœurs ... (Garnier frères, 1852), by Charles Menche de Loisne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neurotic books and newspapers as factors in the mortality of suicide and crime (s.n., 1911), by Edward Bunnell Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le roman : étude morale. Moyen-âge. XVIIe siècle. XVIIIe siècle. XIXe siècle. (Librairie F. Rouge, 1892), by E. Perret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old and new books as life teachers (Doubleday Doran & company, inc., 1928), by Edwin Augustus McAlpin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An address delivered before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Societies of Rutgers College : on the literary character of the Scriptures (Printed by Jared W. Bell ..., 1838), by Alexander Hill Everett, Rutgers College, and Philoclean Society (Rutgers University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della letteratura giovanile : discorso (I. Papsch, 1844), by Paride Zaiotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• La morale dans le drame, l'épopée et le roman (F. Alcan, 1906), by Lucien Arréat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay upon poetry and painting : with relation to the sacred and profane history ; with an appendix concerning obscenity in writing and painting (Printed for F. Fayram and J. Leake, 1730), by Charles Lamotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horror versus morality, or, The tendency of the present popular style of writing on the public morals considered. (John Henry Parker, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etudes sur la littérature française, moralistes des seizième et dix-septième siècles. (Chez les éditeurs, 1859), by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Results of reading (J. Murray, 1843), by James Stamford Caldwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études morales et historiques sur la littérature romaine, depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours (Hachette, 1829), by J.-P. Charpentier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie des belles-lettres : l'âme et les choses dans la parole. (V. Retaux, 1900), by G. Longhaye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettres pastorales de Mgr. l'évêque de Montréal contre les erreurs du temps, (en date du 10 mars 1858); sur l'Institut canadien et les mauvais livres, (en date du 30 avril 1858); sur les mauvais journaux, (en date du 31 mai 1858). (s.n., 1858), by Eglise catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé (s.n., 1858), by Eglise catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé (s.n., 1860), by Eglise catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre pastorale de Mgr. l'évêque de Montréal sur l'Institut canadien et contre les mauvais livres. (s.n., 1858), by Eglise catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé les deux lettres ci-jointes sont le complément de celle du 10 mars dernier ... par rapport aux mauvais livres et aux mauvais journaux .. (s.n., 1858), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) and Ignace Bourget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index, lectures et morale évangélique (s.n.], 1914), by J.-E. Laberge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Études littéraires et morales (Foyer Solidariste, 1907), by Gaston Frommel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Atti della Reale accademia di scienze morali e politiche. Volume 26, 1893-94 (Tipografia della Regia Universitá, 1894), by Società reale di Napoli, Alessandro Chiappelli, Francesco D'Ovidio, Donato Jaja, Francesco Saverio Arabia, Francesco Pepere, Filippo Masci, Luigi Miraglia, Federico Persico, and Raffaele Mariano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sittlichen Ideen der Griechen und ihre Verkünder, die Tragiker. (Fock, 1888), by Otto Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunsten og moralen, bidrag til kritik af realismens digtere og kritikere. (Gyidendal, 1894), by Chr. Collin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral uses of poetry (Printed by R.D. Webb, 1863), by Henry J. Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dei moderni romanzi, memoria di Costanza Moscheni socia ordinaria della R. Accademia lucchese, letta nella stessa R. Accademia il giorno 19 luglio 1828. (Tip. di J. Balatresi, 1828), by Costanza Moscheni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die litterarische bildung der jugend (In commission bei H.F. Favarger, 1845), by Paride Zajotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school of Pantagruel; an essay (Sunbury, C. Collett, 1862), by Richard Herne Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theology of modern fiction (C. H. Kelly, 1897), by Thomas G. Selby and England) Fernley lecture (1896 : Liverpool (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie des belles-lettres; l'âme et les choses dans la parole (P. Téqui, 1900), by G. Longhaye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The chip boy of the dry dock : a local moral story (Printed and published for the author, 1855), by Samuel Canty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du sentiment considéré dans ses rapports avec la littérature et les arts. (Ballanche, 1801), by Pierre Simon Ballanche (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay upon poetry and painting, with relation to the sacred and profane history : with an appendix concerning obscenity in writing and painting (Printed for F. Fayram ... and J. Leake ..., 1730), by Charles Lamotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching social hygiene thru literature. I, Sex instruction through English literature (New York, 1920), by Lucy S. Curtis and Louise B. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schundliteratur ; ihr Wesen, ihre Folgen, ihre Bekämpfung. (Waisenhaus, 1911), by Ernst Schultze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Gefahr des Buches (Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1915), by Antolín López Peláez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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