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Licentious Gotham

By propertyprof

This has been an absurdly busy spring, so I have written about new scholarship much less than I would have liked.  But ... yesterday's mail brought a brilliant new book, Donna Dennis' Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York.  Really great sources; it makes significant contributions to history of the book as well as the history of crime and free speech.

And you know what?  It's reviewed in the New York Post--that's probably a first for a serious work of legal history!

This summer when you have some free time and want a riveting read, check this out.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).