Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls : : The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany / / Sarah L. Leonard.
Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls investigates the creation of "obscene writings and images" as a category of print in nineteenth-century Germany. Sarah L. Leonard charts the process through which texts of many kinds-from popular medical works to stereoscope cards-were deemed dangerous to...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Cultivation of Inner Life and the Dangers of Reading
- Chapter 1. Inventing Fragile Readers
- Chapter 2. Dubious Sources, Dangerous Spaces, Porous Geographies
- Chapter 3. Defending Forbidden Texts
- Chapter 4. Liberalism and the Codification of Obscenity Laws in the 1830s and 1840s
- Chapter 5. Redefining Obscenity in an Era of "Progress," 1848-1880
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments