Lust on Trial : : Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock / / Amy Werbel.
Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three millio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 67 illustrations. Color insert. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Anthony Comstock: From Canaan to Gotham
- 2. Onward Christian Soldiers: Creating the Industry and Infrastructure of American Vice Suppression
- 3. Taming America's "Rich" and "Racy" Underbelly (Volume I: 1871-1884)
- 4. Artists, Libertarians, and Lawyers Unite: The Rise of the Resistance (Volume II: 1884-1895)
- 5. New Women, New Technology, and the Demise of Comstockery (Volume III: 1895-1915)
- CONCLUSION
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Books, Articles, and Digital Resources
- Index