The End of Obscenity

The End of Obscenity
Title The End of Obscenity PDF eBook
Author Charles Rembar
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 512
Release 2015-07-21
Genre Law
ISBN 1504015673

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George Polk Award Winner: This account of American book banning and the battles against it is "a tour de force to fascinate lawyers and laymen alike” (The New York Times Book Review). Up until the 1960s, depending on your state of residence, your copy of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer might be seized by the US Postal Service before reaching your mailbox. Selling copies of Cleland’s Fanny Hill in your bookstore was considered illegal. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence was, according to the American legal system, pornography with no redeeming social value. Today, these novels are celebrated for their literary and historic worth. The End of Obscenity is Charles Rembar’s account of successfully arguing the merits of such great works of literature in front of the Supreme Court. As the lead attorney on the case, he—with the support of a few brave publishers—changed the way Americans read and honor books, especially the controversial ones. Filled with insight from lawyers, justices, and the authors themselves, The End of Obscenity is a lively tour de force. Racy testimony and hilarious asides make Rembar’s memoir not only a page-turner but also an enlightening look at the American legal system. “[Rembar’s] book deals not with the why of obscenity laws but with the how . . . many of his anecdotal digressions into history and law are sharp and amusing.” —The New Republic

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

Memoirs of Fanny Hill
Title Memoirs of Fanny Hill PDF eBook
Author John Cleland
Publisher
Pages 318
Release 1888
Genre
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A Matter of Obscenity

A Matter of Obscenity
Title A Matter of Obscenity PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hilliard
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 336
Release 2023-09-26
Genre History
ISBN 0691226105

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A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.

What is Obscenity?

What is Obscenity?
Title What is Obscenity? PDF eBook
Author Rokudenashiko
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Artists
ISBN 9781927668313

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Rokudenashiko's mission is to demystify female genitalia, a mission that has led to a vulva-shaped kayak and her arrest.

Pornography and the Justices

Pornography and the Justices
Title Pornography and the Justices PDF eBook
Author Richard F. Hixson
Publisher SIU Press
Pages 296
Release 1996
Genre Law
ISBN 9780809320578

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Examines the ways in which the Supreme Court has dealt with obscenity. Chronological chapters featuring a specific aspect of the constitutional problem and the solutions espoused by a particular justice relate each decision to the temper of the times and the guarantees of the First and Fourth Amendments. Concludes that private collection of pornographic material should be restricted only by time and place. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lady Chatterley's lover

Lady Chatterley's lover
Title Lady Chatterley's lover PDF eBook
Author David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 308
Release 2001
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9788809020825

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At the Limit of the Obscene

At the Limit of the Obscene
Title At the Limit of the Obscene PDF eBook
Author Erica Weitzman
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Pages 447
Release 2021-02-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0810143186

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As German-language literature turned in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, a corresponding anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction—with consequences not only for realist poetics but also for the conception of the material world itself. At the Limit of the Obscene examines the roots and repercussions of this anxiety in German realist and postrealist literature. Through analyses of works by Adalbert Stifter, Gustav Freytag, Theodor Fontane, Arno Holz, Gottfried Benn, and Franz Kafka, Erica Weitzman shows how German realism’s conflicted representations of the material world lead to an idea of the obscene as an excess of sensual appearance beyond human meaning: the obverse of the anthropocentric worldview that German realism both propagates and pushes to its crisis. At the Limit of the Obscene thus brings to light the troubled and troubling ontology underlying German realism, at the same time demonstrating how its works continue to shape our ideas about representability, alterity, and the relationship of human beings to the non-human well into the present day.