The Essential Guide to Erotic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Guide to Erotic Literature write by C. J. Scheiner. This book was released on 1996-01-01. The Essential Guide to Erotic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature
The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature write by Brian J. Frost. This book was released on 2003. The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction. Frost's analysis encompasses fanciful medieval beliefs, popular works by Victorian authors, scholarly treatises and medical papers, and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Revealing the complex nature of the werewolf phenomenon and its tremendous and continuing influence, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is destined to become a standard reference on the subject.
The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature write by Bradford K. Mudge. This book was released on 2017-09-07. The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.
A Study of Erotic Literature in England
A Study of Erotic Literature in England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of Erotic Literature in England write by W. v. Murat. This book was released on 2019-09-24. A Study of Erotic Literature in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present work fills a gap as it attempts to offer a history of erotic literature published in the United Kingdom. The word Study in the title is perhaps a bit exaggerated as the material is largely taken from the now well known bibliographies by Pisanus Fraxi (Henry Spencer Ashbee) and quotations from the books themselves. The time line is WW II. Who was the author? He may have been Charles Reginald Dawes (1879-1964) who is supposed to have written (but not published) a text of this or a similar title. His profession or his activities are not known - he once called himself a writer but library catalogues credit him only with two publications: The Marquis de Sade (Paris 1927) and Retif de la Bretonne (London 1946, privately printed). He may have been a popular writer under pseudonyms, though. Dawes owned a good erotica collection which he willed to the British Museum Library; that would explain why the author of this Study - if he was Dawes - could quote freely from erotic texts which only few of his contemporaries would have had available. The main merits of this book are that the author was thoroughly familiar with English (and French) erotic literature and that he put his material in chronological order and in context. The editor added a number of references, illustrations and indices of personal names and titles to facilitate navigation.
Bookleggers and Smuthounds
Bookleggers and Smuthounds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bookleggers and Smuthounds write by Jay A. Gertzman. This book was released on 2011-09-02. Bookleggers and Smuthounds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica and the moralists who attached them—and how the existence of both groups depended on the enduring appeal of prurience. By keeping intact the association of sex with obscenity and shameful silence, distributors of erotica simultaneously provided the antivice crusaders with a public enemy. Jay Gertzman offers unforgettable portrayals of the "pariah capitalists" who shaped the industry, and of the individuals, organizations, and government agencies that sought to control them. Among the most compelling personalities we meet are the notorious publisher Samuel Roth, "the Prometheus of the Unprintable," and his nemesis, John Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a man aggressive in his pursuit of pornographers and in his quest for a morally united—and ethnically homogeneous—America.
