Licentious Gotham : : Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York / / Donna Dennis.
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 experien...
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Dennis, Donna, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Licentious Gotham : Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York / Donna Dennis. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (408 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. “Beware of Print and Fancy Goods Stores” -- 2. Flash Weeklies -- 3. Fancy Books and Racy Pamphlets -- 4. The Publishers -- 5. Venus in the Mail -- 6. The Triumph of Pornography -- 7. The Comstock Act -- 8. New Frontiers -- Appendix: Titles of Books Named in New York Obscenity Indictments, 1840–1860 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) LAW / Criminal Law / General. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053731?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674053731 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674053731/original |
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