{"product_id":"bookleggers-and-smuthounds-the-trade-in-erotica-1920-1940-paperback-softback-9780812217988","title":"Bookleggers and Smuthounds; The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812217988","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBookleggers and Smuthounds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJay A. Gertzman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812217988\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 September 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 53 illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.588 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] absorbing account of an often overlooked corner of American publishing history.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Gertzman's book is important; it opens a new topic of study and establishes groundwork for debate.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A major work of scholarship.\"-\u003ci\u003eAB Bookman's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A detailed and fascinating study.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This excellent study deserves to be ready by any lawyer and jurist. . . . It raises profound questions, which still haunt the legal scene.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew York Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookleggers and Smuthounds\u003c\/i\u003e vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history, revealing the subtle, symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica and the moralists who attached them-and how the existence of both groups depended on the enduring appeal of prurience. By keeping intact the association of sex with obscenity and shameful silence, distributors of erotica simultaneously provided the antivice crusaders with a public enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJay Gertzman offers unforgettable portrayals of the \"pariah capitalists\" who shaped the industry, and of the individuals, organizations, and government agencies that sought to control them. Among the most compelling personalities we meet are the notorious publisher Samuel Roth, \"the Prometheus of the Unprintable,\" and his nemesis, John Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a man aggressive in his pursuit of pornographers and in his quest for a morally united-and ethnically homogeneous-America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs \u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Sex O'clock in America\": Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why \u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Hardworking American Daddy\": John Saxton Sumner and the New Society for the of Vice \u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights than the Bowery\": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation \u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Your Casanova Is Unmailable'': Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of\u003cbr\u003e 7. Erotica\u003cbr\u003e 8. Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743744061720,"sku":"9780812217988","price":30.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bookleggers-and-smuthounds-the-trade-in-erotica-1920-1940-paperback-softback-9780812217988","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}