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,...
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 lite...
This bibliography clarifies the circumstances regarding the publication, marketing and distribution (in private, pirated, expurgated, trade and mass-market, hard- and soft-bound editions) of D. H. Lawrence's controversial novel, "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Prefixed to the descriptions of each edition are introductory essays designed to both elucidate the novel's long and interesting publication history and indicate the social settings which conditioned its production and reception.
The bibliographical listings classify the various printings into editions, impressions, issues and states....
This bibliography clarifies the circumstances regarding the publication, marketing and distribution (in private, pirated, expurgated, trade and mas...
"The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law. Gertzman's wide-ranging knowledge of Roth and the startlingly diverse contexts in which he lived and worked makes this a penetrating and unsurpassed portrait not only of Roth but of the country he inhabited."--Robert Spoo, coeditor of Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946 "Gertzman is to be commended for braiding together so many underappreciated strands...
"The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, t...
The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law. Gertzman s wide-ranging knowledge of Roth and the startlingly diverse contexts in which he lived and worked makes this a penetrating and unsurpassed portrait not only of Roth but of the country he inhabited. Robert Spoo, coeditor ofEzra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945 1946
Gertzman is to be commended for braiding together so many underappreciated strands of...
The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, tr...
