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The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture

The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture Paperback - 1997

by Walter Kendrick; Steve Renick [Designer]

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University of California Press, 1997-02-06. Paperback. Clean & Unmarked . 8x5x0. Very clean and straight. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 318 pp.
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  • Title The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture
  • Author Walter Kendrick; Steve Renick [Designer]
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition Used - Clean & Unmarked
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1997-02-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 220616005
  • ISBN 9780520207295 / 0520207297
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.54 x 0.8 in (20.73 x 14.07 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Pornography - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96008107
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.470

From the publisher

Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography-the word was not coined until the late 18th century-which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and literature of the French enlightenment, and the poems of the Earl of Rochester and John Cleland's Fanny Hill. From the secret museums to the pornography trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterly's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Kendrick explores how conceptions of pornography relate to issues of freedom of expression and censorship.

From the rear cover

Although erotica has always existed, "pornography" is a recent phenomenon: as late as the eighteenth century the word did not exist. From the secret museums to the pornography trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterly's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Walter Kendrick explores how conceptions of pornography relate to issues of freedom of expression and censorship. He provides, too, a fascinating portrait gallery of the jurists, artists, guardians of public morality, sleaze merchants, and civil libertarians who have played roles in the changing definitions of pornography.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 01/19/1997, Page 28

About the author

Walter Kendrick is Professor of English at Fordham University and author of The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment (1991) among other titles.