When Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata was banned from distribution through the mail (except for first class) in 1890, New York street vendors began selling it from pushcarts carrying large signs reading Suppressed! In 1961, the United States Supreme Court pondered whether D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was lewd or literary, but in 1969, the novel was required reading in many college literature courses. Changing sexual mores have moved many formerly forbidden books out of locked cabinets and into libraries and ...
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When Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata was banned from distribution through the mail (except for first class) in 1890, New York street vendors began selling it from pushcarts carrying large signs reading Suppressed! In 1961, the United States Supreme Court pondered whether D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was lewd or literary, but in 1969, the novel was required reading in many college literature courses. Changing sexual mores have moved many formerly forbidden books out of locked cabinets and into libraries and classrooms. Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Revised Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 100 works deemed sexually obscene. The 15 entries new to this edition include America by Jon Stewart, Sex by Madonna, and many more. Also included are updates to entries such as Forever by Judy Blume, and more. New and updated entries include: Alice on the Outside (Phyllis Naylor); An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser); The Arabian Nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) Blume); How to Make Love Like a Pom Star (Jenna Jameson); Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy); Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence); Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov); November (Gustave Flaubert); Outlaw Representation (Richard Meyer); Peyton Place (Grace Metalious); Rabbit, Run (John Updike); Sari Says (Sari Locker); Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy (James T. Farrell); La Terre (Emile Zola); Ulysses (James Joyce); The Wild Palms (William Faulkner); and, Women on Top (Nancy Friday).
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xxii, 282 pp., Introduction by Ken Wachsberger. Foreword by David Greene. "Describes the content and histories of some 100 fiction and nonfiction works from many cultures and time periods censored on grounds of sexual content, illuminating changing attitudes toward the erotic through a survey of the legal fate of classic and representative works"-Publisher' s description].
