Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.
Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.
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N363.470973/5
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English
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418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs -- 2. "Sex O'Clock in America": Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why -- 3. "Hardworking American Daddy": John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice -- 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery"...
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c1999.
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"Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually explicit fiction of authors such as James Joyce,...
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Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index.
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c1999.
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N363.470973/5
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74VvrXKNlXbl
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0812234936 (acid-free paper)
9780812217988 (pbk.)
0812217985 (pbk.)
9780812234930 (acid-free paper)
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363.470973
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991011344309702626