Introduction: Issues and Problems in the History of Pornography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Issues and Problems in the History of Pornography 1
5. Wanderers, Entertainers, and Seducers: Making Sense of Obscenity Law in the German States, 1830–1851 27
6. Censorship in Republican Times: Censorship and Pornographic Novels Located in L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1800–1900 48
7. Anti-Abolition Writes Obscenity: The English Vice, Transatlantic Slavery, and England’s Obscene Print Culture 67
8. The Rise of the Overly Affectionate Family: Incestuous Pornography and Displaced Desire among the Edwardian Middle Class 100
9. Old Wine in New Bottles? Literary Pornography in Twentieth-Century France 125
10. A Perfectly British Business: Stagnation, Continuities, and Change on the Top Shelf 146
11. Global Traffic in Pornography: The Hungarian Example 173
12. Ideologies of the Second Coming in the Ukrainian Postcolonial Playground 205
13. Stripping the Nation Bare: Russian Pornography and the Insistence on Meaning 232
14. Walking on the Wild Side: Shemale Internet Pornography 255
15. Contributors 275
16. Index 279