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

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Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three millio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werbel, Amy Beth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
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.
Censorship.
Moral conditions.
Obscenity (Law)
United States.
History.

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