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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
Jay A. Gertzman
Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
Jay A. Gertzman
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.
424 pages, 53 illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 30, 2001 |
ISBN13 | 9780812217988 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 424 |
Dimensions | 228 × 152 × 25 mm · 644 g |
Language | English |
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