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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
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    gbv_839030762
    Format: Online-Ressource (424 p)
    ISBN: 9780812217988
    Content: This first examination of the trade in erotica during the 1920s and '30s provides an understanding of the evolution of both obscenity law and sexual explicitness in literature, and raises fascinating questions about moral control, idealism, and the marketplace in ways that continue to resonate today.
    Content: Cover -- BOOKLEGGERS AND SMUTHOUNDS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation -- 5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals -- 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""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"": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation""; ""5. ""Your Casanova is Unmailable"" : Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals"" , ""6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica""""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780812205855
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780812217988
    Additional Edition: Print version Bookleggers and Smuthounds : The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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