Literature, Obscenity, & Law

by Felice Flanery Lewis

Book Overview

This timely new study provides a systematic, comparative, and compre­hensive view of literature's involvement in the obscenity question.

The year 1890 roughly marks the beginning of a sexual revolution in the fiction published in the United States. Today, the gains realized generally are regarded as beneficial, and the right of writers to express themselves and, per­haps more importantly, the right of people to read, usually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809307499
• ISBN13: 9780809307494
• Release Date: June 1976
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"