LEADER 03929nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910788511503321 005 20211007025046.0 010 $a1-283-89676-1 010 $a0-8122-0585-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205855 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068524 035 $a(OCoLC)654308439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642703 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686490 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390507 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686490 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10733303 035 $a(PQKB)10134965 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17895 035 $a(DE-B1597)449278 035 $a(OCoLC)979756467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205855 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441951 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642703 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420926 035 $a(OCoLC)929157563 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441951 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068524 100 $a19990115d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBookleggers and smuthounds$b[electronic resource] $ethe trade in erotica, 1920-1940 /$fJay A. Gertzman 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (428 p.) 300 $aFirst paperback printing 2002. 311 0 $a0-8122-1798-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1 . Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs --$t2. "Sex O'clock in America" : Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why --$t3. "Hardworking American Daddy" John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice --$t4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation --$t5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals --$t6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aBetween 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. Jay Gertzman offers unforgettable portrayals of the "pariah capitalists" who shaped the industry, and of the individuals, organizations, and government agencies that sought to control them. Among the most compelling personalities we meet are the notorious publisher Samuel Roth, "the Prometheus of the Unprintable," and his nemesis, John Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a man aggressive in his pursuit of pornographers and in his quest for a morally united?and ethnically homogeneous?America. 606 $aErotica$zUnited States 606 $aPornography$zUnited States 615 0$aErotica 615 0$aPornography 676 $a363.4/7/0973 700 $aGertzman$b Jay A$01570903 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788511503321 996 $aBookleggers and smuthounds$93844872 997 $aUNINA