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Unclean lips : obscenity, Jews, and American culture /

Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non-Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court deci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lambert, Joshua N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sexual anti-Semitism and pornotopia : Theodore Dreiser, Ludwig Lewisohn, and The Harrad experiment
  • The prestige of dirty words and pictures : Horace Liveright, Henry Roth, and the graphic novel
  • Otherfuckers and motherfuckers : reproduction and allegory in Philip Roth and Adele Wiseman
  • Seductive modesty : censorship vs. Yiddish and Orthodox tsnies
  • Conclusion : Dirty Jews and the Christian right : Larry David and FCC v. Fox.