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Könyv Licentious Gotham Donna Dennis

Licentious Gotham

Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York

Szerző: Donna Dennis
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Harvard University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
18 307 Ft
Licentious Gotham, set in the streets, news depots, publishing houses, grand jury chambers, and cour...

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Szerző
Donna Dennis
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2009
oldal
408
EAN
9780674032835
ISBN
0674032837
Enbook ID
04635285
Kiadó
Harvard University Press
Súly
614
Méretek
147 x 217 x 33

Teljes leírás

Licentious Gotham, set in the streets, news depots, publishing houses, grand jury chambers, and courtrooms of the nation's great metropolis, delves into the stories of the enterprising men and women who created a thriving transcontinental market for sexually arousing books and pictures. The experiences of 'fancy' publishers, 'flash' editors, and 'racy' novelists, who all managed to pursue their trade in the face of laws criminalizing obscene publications, dramatically convey nineteenth-century America's daring notions of sex, gender, and desire, as well as the frequently counterproductive results of attempts to enforce conventional moral standards. In nineteenth-century New York, the business of erotic publishing and legal attacks on obscenity developed in tandem, with each activity shaping and even promoting the pursuit of the other. Obscenity prohibitions, rather than curbing salacious publications, inspired innovative new styles of forbidden literature - such as works highlighting expressions of passion and pleasure by middle-class American women. Obscenity prosecutions also spurred purveyors of lewd materials to devise novel schemes to evade local censorship by advertising and distributing their products through the mail. This subterfuge in turn triggered far-reaching transformations in strategies for policing obscenity. Donna Dennis offers a colorful, groundbreaking account of the birth of an indecent print trade and the origins of obscenity regulation in the United States. By revealing the paradoxes that characterized early efforts to suppress sexual expression in the name of morality, she suggests relevant lessons for our own day.

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