Bookleggers and Smuthounds
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Wikipedia
Featured:  |
Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (1999) by Jay A. Gertzman is history book on US East Coast 20th century erotica. It was published by the University of Pennsylvania.
First Sentence:
In the 1920s and 1930s, when sexually explicit books and magazines and their illustrations, not the Internet and video cassettes, were considered a chief corrupting influence in American homes, censorious authorities pointed suspiciously at booksellers of widely varying types.
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
erotica dealers, erotica distributors, banned erotica, preventive societies, sex pulps, erotica merchants, vice suppressor, antivice societies, pariah capitalists, protested books, middleman minority theories, decoy letters, erotic folklore, sexually explicit books, federal censorship, obscenity legislation, pariah capitalism, erotic classics, periodical letters, vice crusader, erotic books, sporting books, obscene books, purity societies, sexual reticence
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs):
New York, Samuel Roth, John Sumner, Esar Levine, Frank Harris, Publishers Weekly, Jews Must Live, Fifth Avenue, Morris Ernst, United States, William Faro, Sam Roth, Gershon Legman, Gotham Book Mart, Panurge Press, Thomas Seltzer, Clement Wood, Fanny Hill, Ben Rebhuhn, Falstaff Press, Fourth Avenue, Postal Service, Casanova's Homecoming, Dunster House, First Amendment
See also
