Lust on trial : censorship and the rise of American obscenity in the age of Anthony Comstock /

Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three millio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Werbel, Amy Beth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Comstock, Anthony, > 1844-1915.
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
Censorship > United States > History.
Obscenity (Law) > United States > History.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Censorship.
Moral conditions.
Obscenity (Law)
United States > Moral conditions.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Anthony Comstock, from Canaan to Gotham
  • Onward Christian soldiers: creating the industry and infrastructure of American vice suppression
  • Taming America's "rich" and "racy" underbelly (volume I: 1871-1884)
  • Artists, libertarians, and lawyers unite: the rise of the resistance (volume II: 1884-1895)
  • New women, new technology, and the demise of Comstockery (volume III: 1895-1915)
  • Conclusion: post mortem.

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