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Author Werbel, Amy Beth, author.

Title Lust on trial : censorship and the rise of American obscenity in the age of Anthony Comstock / Amy Werbel.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2018.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  3006.771 WERBEL    Check Shelf
Description pages cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Anthony Comstock, from Canaan to Gotham -- Onward Christian soldiers: creating the industry and infrastructure of American vice suppression -- Taming America's "rich" and "racy" underbelly (volume I: 1871-1884) -- Artists, libertarians, and lawyers unite: the rise of the resistance (volume II: 1884-1895) -- New women, new technology, and the demise of Comstockery (volume III: 1895-1915) -- Conclusion: post mortem.
Subject Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
Censorship -- United States -- History.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States -- History.
United States -- Moral conditions.
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915. (OCoLC)fst00329287
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. (OCoLC)fst00580591
Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00850568
Moral conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026043
Obscenity (Law) (OCoLC)fst01042937
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Werbel, Amy Beth. Lust on trial. New York : Columbia University Press, 2018 9780231547031 (DLC) 2017049977
ISBN 9780231175227 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
0231175221
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