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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica: 1920-1940
Jay A. Gertzman
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Description for Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica: 1920-1940
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 424 pages, 53 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; GTB; JFC; JFMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually explicit fiction of authors such as James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, and D.H. Lawrence; mail-order manuals; pulp romances; and little dirty comics. Bookleggers and Smuthounds vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history, revealing the subtle, symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica ... Read more
Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually explicit fiction of authors such as James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, and D.H. Lawrence; mail-order manuals; pulp romances; and little dirty comics. Bookleggers and Smuthounds vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history, revealing the subtle, symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
625g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812217988
SKU
V9780812217988
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About Jay A. Gertzman
Jay A. Gertzman is Professor Emeritus of English at Mansfield University and has been actively involved with the National Coalition Against Censorship based in New York.
Reviews for Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica: 1920-1940
Gertzman's book is important; it opens a new topic of study and establishes groundwork for debate. -Journal of American History A detailed and fascinating study. -The Library A major work of scholarship. -AB Bookman's [An] absorbing account of an often overlooked corner of American publishing history. -Publishers Weekly This excellent study deserves to be ready by ... Read more