Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock

by Amy Beth Werbel and Amy Werbel

Book Overview

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 million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene. But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich cultural and social history, Comstock's campaign to rid America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231175221
• ISBN13: 9780231175227
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"