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{ 237 } bibliographical essay Note from the Series Editors: The following bibliographical essay contains the major primary and secondary sources the author consulted for this volume. We have asked all authors in the series to omit formal citations in order to make our volumes more readable , inexpensive, and appealing for students and general readers. In adopting this format, Landmark Law Cases and American Society follows the precedent of a number of highly regarded and widely consulted series. As an avowed footnote fetishist, part of me mourns their absence here. But a bibliographical essay is something to relish, and it provides juicy compensation to write. I have organized this essay thematically, highlighting the archival sources, published primary sources, and secondary scholarship that constitute the research base of this book. Some important sources cut across categories , though, so I begin with the general. Works that deal broadly with the histories of obscenity and pornography are many, but I would single out a few. Edward de Grazia, Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius (New York: Random House, 1992), is such an enormous book that few nonspecialists will read it, but its encyclopedic scope is matched by its sharp eye, befitting one who was not just a scholar but an active participant (as defense attorney) in these battles . Richard Kuh comes from the other side of the courtroom, but provides more insider perspective in Foolish Figleaves? Pornography In and Out of Court (New York: Macmillan, 1967). Felice Flannery Lewis’s Literature, Obscenity, and the Law (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976), remains exemplary in its balancing of legal analysis against literary, and Richard Hixson delivers a more focused but useful narrative in Pornography and the Justices: The Supreme Court and the Intractable Obscenity Problem (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996). Almost everything one could imagine and much that one could not is covered in Joseph Slade’s three-volume Pornography and Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001). Finally, a marvelous and thus far rather overlooked study, Christopher Novlin, Judging Obscenity: A Critical History of Evidence (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003), examines both the United States and Canada. While numerous works on the history of sexuality are cited below, it remains amazing that a broad synthetic text predated much of the field, yet John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman’s Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), did just that. It is from D’Emilio and Freedman that I take the idea of sexual liberalism, so important in this book. The Samuel Roth Papers at Columbia University are perhaps the central source for this book. The collection, only recently opened, is an absolute boon to scholars, full of personal correspondence, legal documents, examples of Roth’s advertising circulars that landed him in so much trouble, and more, including his FBI file. It was truly a thrill to comb through. A thick vertical file on Roth at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University usefully complemented the Roth Papers. Before the work of Jay Gertzman, little had been written on Roth. Leo Hamalian, The Secret Careers of Samuel Roth (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Harian Press, 1969), and the overlapping “Nobody Knows My Name: Samuel Roth and the Underside of Modern Letters,” Journal of Modern Literature 3 (1974), are useful if not entirely accurate, and a good mini-biography appears in Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife (New York: Dell, 1980), but it was the arrival of Gertzman’s Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920–1940 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), that truly brought the elusive Roth into focus, in a stunning 80-page chapter. The rest of the book is also a remarkable contribution to the history of obscenity. Gertzman has continued to explore Roth, in such pieces as “The Promising Jewish Poetry of a Pariah: Samuel Roth,” Studies in American Jewish Literature 28 (2009), and “Not Quite Honest: Samuel Roth’s ‘Unauthorized’ Ulysses and the 1927 International Protest,” Joyce Studies Annual (2009). His “A Scarlet Pansy Goes to War: Subversion, Schlock, and an Early Gay Classic,” Journal of American Culture 33 (2010), recovers a significant book that Roth published, and Gertzman’s forthcoming biography, Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist, will be a major work. A few other scholars have begun to pursue Roth. Mark Gaippa and Robert Scholes, “She ‘Never Had a Room of Her Own’: Hemingway and the...

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