Bookleggers and smuthounds [[electronic resource] ] : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / / Jay A. Gertzman |
Autore | Gertzman Jay A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.4/7/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Erotica - United States
Pornography - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-89676-1
0-8122-0585-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 . Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs -- 2. "Sex O'clock in America" : Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why -- 3. "Hardworking American Daddy" John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice -- 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation -- 5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals -- 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463708203321 |
Gertzman Jay A | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bookleggers and smuthounds [[electronic resource] ] : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / / Jay A. Gertzman |
Autore | Gertzman Jay A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.4/7/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Erotica - United States
Pornography - United States |
ISBN |
1-283-89676-1
0-8122-0585-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 . Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs -- 2. "Sex O'clock in America" : Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why -- 3. "Hardworking American Daddy" John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice -- 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation -- 5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals -- 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788511503321 |
Gertzman Jay A | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bookleggers and smuthounds [[electronic resource] ] : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / / Jay A. Gertzman |
Autore | Gertzman Jay A |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.4/7/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Erotica - United States
Pornography - United States |
ISBN |
1-283-89676-1
0-8122-0585-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 . Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs -- 2. "Sex O'clock in America" : Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why -- 3. "Hardworking American Daddy" John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice -- 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation -- 5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals -- 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812970303321 |
Gertzman Jay A | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Samuel Roth [[electronic resource] ] : infamous modernist / / Jay A. Gertzman |
Autore | Gertzman Jay A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
Disciplina |
070.5092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Publishers and publishing - United States
Modernism (Literature) - United States Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8130-4618-1
0-8130-4508-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1893-1916: From a Galician shtetl to Columbia University -- 1917-1925: Prelude to an international protest: a rising, pugnacious man of letters -- 1925-1927: "Damn his impertinence. Bloody crook": Roth publishes Joyce -- 1928-1934: Roth must live: a successful business and its bankruptcy -- 1934: Jews must live: "we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it" -- 1934-1939: A stretch in the federal penitentiary -- 1940-1949: Roth breaks parole, uncovers a Nazi plot, gives "Dame Post Office" fits, and tells his own story in mail-order advertising copy -- 1949-1952: Times Square, Peggy Roth, Southern Gothic, Celine, and Nietzsche -- 1952-1957: The Windsors, Winchell, Kefauver: back to Lewisburg -- 1958-1974: "It had been a long time since someone like you had appeared in the world": Roth fulfills his mission. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452919903321 |
Gertzman Jay A | ||
Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Samuel Roth [[electronic resource] ] : infamous modernist / / Jay A. Gertzman |
Autore | Gertzman Jay A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
Disciplina |
070.5092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Publishers and publishing - United States
Modernism (Literature) - United States Literature, Modern - 20th century |
ISBN |
0-8130-4618-1
0-8130-4508-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1893-1916: From a Galician shtetl to Columbia University -- 1917-1925: Prelude to an international protest: a rising, pugnacious man of letters -- 1925-1927: "Damn his impertinence. Bloody crook": Roth publishes Joyce -- 1928-1934: Roth must live: a successful business and its bankruptcy -- 1934: Jews must live: "we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it" -- 1934-1939: A stretch in the federal penitentiary -- 1940-1949: Roth breaks parole, uncovers a Nazi plot, gives "Dame Post Office" fits, and tells his own story in mail-order advertising copy -- 1949-1952: Times Square, Peggy Roth, Southern Gothic, Celine, and Nietzsche -- 1952-1957: The Windsors, Winchell, Kefauver: back to Lewisburg -- 1958-1974: "It had been a long time since someone like you had appeared in the world": Roth fulfills his mission. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790575603321 |
Gertzman Jay A | ||
Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Samuel Roth : infamous modernist / / Jay A. Gertzman |
Autore | Gertzman Jay A |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
Disciplina |
070.5092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Publishers and publishing - United States
Modernism (Literature) - United States Literature, Modern - 20th century |
ISBN |
0-8130-4618-1
0-8130-4508-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1893-1916: From a Galician shtetl to Columbia University -- 1917-1925: Prelude to an international protest: a rising, pugnacious man of letters -- 1925-1927: "Damn his impertinence. Bloody crook": Roth publishes Joyce -- 1928-1934: Roth must live: a successful business and its bankruptcy -- 1934: Jews must live: "we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it" -- 1934-1939: A stretch in the federal penitentiary -- 1940-1949: Roth breaks parole, uncovers a Nazi plot, gives "Dame Post Office" fits, and tells his own story in mail-order advertising copy -- 1949-1952: Times Square, Peggy Roth, Southern Gothic, Celine, and Nietzsche -- 1952-1957: The Windsors, Winchell, Kefauver: back to Lewisburg -- 1958-1974: "It had been a long time since someone like you had appeared in the world": Roth fulfills his mission. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809426003321 |
Gertzman Jay A | ||
Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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