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Bookleggers and Smuthounds – The Trade in Erotica, 192–194 de Jay A. Gertzman

Bookleggers and Smuthounds – The Trade in Erotica, 192–194

Autor Jay A. Gertzman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2001
This first examination of the trade in erotica during the 1920s and '30s provides an understanding of the evolution of both obscenity law and sexual explicitness in literature, and raises fascinating questions about moral control, idealism, and the marketplace in ways that continue to resonate today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812217988
ISBN-10: 0812217985
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

"[An] absorbing account of an often overlooked corner of American publishing history."-Publishers Weekly "Gertzman's book is important; it opens a new topic of study and establishes groundwork for debate."-Journal of American History "A major work of scholarship."-AB Bookman's "A detailed and fascinating study."-The Library "This excellent study deserves to be ready by any lawyer and jurist... It raises profound questions, which still haunt the legal scene."-New York Law Journal

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs
2. "Sex O'clock in America": Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why
3. "Hardworking American Daddy": John Saxton Sumner and the New Society for the of Vice
4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation
5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable'': Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals
6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of
7. Erotica
8. Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index