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Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
By Werbel, Amy Beth
- ISBN
- 9780231175227 9780231547031
- Publisher
- Columbia Univ.
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Reviewed on April 15, 2018 | Social Sciences
Art historian Werbel (Thomas Eakins) offers an engaging history of professional activist Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) and his campaign against American vice. After two chapters sketching out Comstock's youth, service in the Civil War, and early attempts at policing licentious materials and behaviors, Werbel structures the narrative around the three surviving volumes of Comstock's meticulous case records (1871–1915), which document ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
