Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism - Paperback

by Erik M. Bachman (Author)

Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.

Author Biography

Erik M. Bachman is Lecturer of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and coeditor of the Lukács Library at Brill.