Research Catalog

Title

Purity in print : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age / Paul S. Boyer.

Author

Boyer, Paul S.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

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Description

xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., ports.; cm.

Summary

Boyer's (history, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) first edition of this work, published in 1968, chronicling censorship from the 19th century through the 1930s, is presented here essentially unchanged. New to this edition are chapters extending the book's scope to the present, with topics that include the continuing attacks on the First Amendment, the actions of the religious right as it mobilized politically, developments generated by feminism in attitudes towards obscenity, and the new issues generated by the Internet. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Series Statement

Print culture history in modern America

Uniform Title

• Print culture history in modern America
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Censorship > United States > History
• Obscenity (Law) > United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-441) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The vice societies in the nineteenth century -- The vice societies in the Progressive Era -- The First World War -- The first postwar clash-1918-22 -- The "Clean Books" crusade -- The latter 1920s -- "Banned in Boston" -- The onslaught against federal censorship -- The thirties -- The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s -- 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies.

ISBN

0299175847 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002001066

OCLC

49551897

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library