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Bookleggers and smuthounds the trade in erotica, 1920-1940

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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, 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."

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Bookleggers and smuthounds the trade in erotica : 1920-1940"
  • "Bookleggers and Smuthounds The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940"
  • "Bookleggers and smuthounds the trade in erotica, 1920-1940"
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  • "Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica : 1920-1940"
  • "Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940"

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