Dirty jokes and bawdy songs : the uncensored life of Gershon Legman / Susan G. Davis.
Dirty jokes and bawdy songs : the uncensored life of Gershon Legman / Susan G. Davis.
Dirty jokes and bawdy songs : the uncensored life of Gershon Legman / Susan G. Davis.
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
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G 2020/2806
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English
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Physical content
xv, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The Stranger -- Sex Researcher -- Kinsey's Bibliographer -- Love & Death -- Neurotica -- Advanced Studies in Folklore -- "The Ballad" and The Horn Book -- The Key to the Fields -- The Hell Drawer -- Under Mt. Cheiron.
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman's prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidde...
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Dirty jokes and bawdy songs : the uncensored life of Gershon Legman / Susan G. Davis.
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Folklore studies in a multicultural world
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2019.
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G 2020/2806
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74VKadPJ3WOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadPJ3WOM
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ISBN
0252084446 paperback
9780252042614 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0252042611 hardcover
9780252084447 paperback ; alkaline paper
DDC
398.2092 B
MMS ID
991024317386202626
