Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940Between 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, Theodore Dreiser, and D.H. Lawrence; mail-order manuals; pulp romances; and "little dirty comics." |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs | 15 |
Who Bought What Where How | 49 |
John Saxton Sumner and | 103 |
Taste | 135 |
MailOrder Erotica and Postal | 179 |
Man of Letters and Entrepreneur | 219 |
Epilogue | 283 |
Notes | 309 |
Selected Bibliography | 381 |
Acknowledgments | 397 |
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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 Jay A. Gertzman No preview available - 1999 |
Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 Jay A. Gertzman No preview available - 1999 |