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Between 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.".
Bookleggers and Smuthounds vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history. If the book is about individuals and the books they published, sold, or seized, it is equally about prurience: how it affects the mind, how it has been used to make judgments about proper and illicit behavior, and how it has been used to make laws.
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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: the Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Bookleggers and Smuthounds
June 18, 1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
September 1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
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"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."
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