A Publisher's Paradise: Expatriate Literary Culture in Paris, 1890-1960

by Colette Colligan

From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for interrogating the margins of sexual culture and literary censorship, and a wide variety of English language "dirty books" circulated through loose expatriate publishing and distribution networks.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340389
• ISBN13: 9781625340382
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"