The secret museum : pornography in modern culture
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
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., ©1996
xiv, 318 p. ; 21 cm
9780520207295, 0520207297
318274774
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION ONE ORIGINS TWO THE PRE-P0RNOGRAPHIC ERA THREE ADVENTURES OF THE YOUNG PERSON FOUR TRIALS OF THE WORD FIVE THE AMERICAN OBSCENE SIX GOOD INTENTIONS SEVEN HARD AT THE CORE EIGHT THE POST-PORNOGRAPHIC ERA AFTERWORD , 1996 REFERENCE NOTES LIST OF WORKS CITED INDEX
Originally published: New York : Viking, 1987. With new afterword