The Secret Museum
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The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture (1987) is a book by Walter Kendrick on the concept of pornography. The book correctly states that the word was not coined until the late 18th century, which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and literature of the French enlightenment, and the poems of the Earl of Rochester and John Cleland's Fanny Hill.
From the secret museums to the obscenity trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterley's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Kendrick explores how conceptions of pornography relate to issues of freedom of expression and censorship.
TOC
- Preface To The Paperback Edition ix
- Origins 1 (32)
- The Pre-Pornographic Era 33 (34)
- Adventures of the Young Person 67 (28)
- Trials of the Word 95 (30)
- The American Obscene 125 (33)
- Good Intentions 158 (30)
- Hard at the Core 188 (25)
- The Post-Pornographic Era 213 (28)
- Afterword, 1996 241 (26)
- Reference Notes 267 (28)
- List Of Works Cited 295 (10)
- Index 305
See also
References
- Kendrick, Walter. The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
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