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edocfu_9958352404602883
Format:
1 online resource(272p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812291780
Series Statement:
Material Texts
Content:
Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls investigates the creation of "obscene writings and images" —from popular medical works to stereoscope cards—and the process through which these texts were deemed dangerous to the intellectual and emotional lives of vulnerable consumers in nineteenth-century Germany.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: The Cultivation of Inner Life and the Dangers of Reading --
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Chapter 1. Inventing Fragile Readers --
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Chapter 2. Dubious Sources, Dangerous Spaces, Porous Geographies --
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Chapter 3. Defending Forbidden Texts --
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Chapter 4. Liberalism and the Codification of Obscenity Laws in the 1830s and 1840s --
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Chapter 5. Redefining Obscenity in an Era of "Progress," 1848–1880 --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812291780
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291780
