10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMSTOCKISM»
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comstockism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
comstockism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, ...
Traps for the young. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. (Original work published 1884).
Comstock and his annual meeting. (1888, March). Dr. Foote's Health Monthly, p.
12. Comstockism condemned. (1888, April 13). Lucifer, the Light Bearer, p. 243.
2
Do You Want Free Speech?.
James Ferdinand Morton. Comstockism, the whole country has become
inoculated with its virus. Public libraries, led by that of Boston, where better sense
ought to prevail, insult their patrons with a censorship that suggests a return to
the ...
James Ferdinand Morton, 19
3
The Bookseller's Friend
'A Victim of Comstockism' is the most daring and s'artliug novel placed on the
American book market for many years, abounding in climaxes that will startle the
Society for the Suppression of Vice, and make their leader, Anthony Cotustock, ...
4
Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock
... of using a wife as a convenience for a man's easing himself of a fluid which is
looked on as an excretion, is chiefly responsible for the widespread idea that the
sex relation is unclean, and for the growth of Comstockism, with its baneful efforts
...
5
The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present
To the insightful journalist Carey McWilliams, Los Angeles seemed "a center of
Comstockism and Fundamentalism." The Protestant crusade against religious
modernism took its nastiest turn with the previously described rise and fall of the
Ku ...
6
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years ...
It might have been so were it not for Boss Comstock.8 Certainly Mr. Livesey must
know by this time that free press and free speech are things of the past; that
Comstockism is fast spreading in this country, destroying the liberty of each victim
it ...
Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, 2008
7
The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control ...
Ibid., 3—6, 16. “Comstockism” is, again, a reference to Anthony Comstock. At this
trial, Heywood's second, he was acquitted. At his first trial, in 1877, he had been
convicted, sentenced to two years, and served six months; at his third, in 1890, ...
8
Nine Scorpions In A Bottle: Great Judges and Cases of the ...
It is unfair to accuse them of Grundyism or Comstockism. I do charge them with a
willingness to make Ginzburg expendable in their effort to distinguish between a
marginal publication in a relatively quiet context and one in a shrill, commercial ...
9
Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel
If I did not understand them I would dislike them myself, God knows! But all this
fear of indecency, all this noise about purity and sex and the social order and the
Comstockism particular and general is nasty—too nasty to make any compromise
...
Horace Traubel, Gary Schmidgall, 2001
10
Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia
Eli Coleman COMSTOCK, ANTHONY; COMSTOCKERY Comstockery (
sometimes Comstockism) refers to an aggressive prudery aimed at eliminating all
mention or depiction of sexual matters or erotic stimulation from public
expression or ...
Vern L Bullough, RN, PhD, Faan, Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, 2014
