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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, American Antiquarian Society, Patricia Cline Cohen
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780226112336
- ISBN: 0226112330
- Edition: 1
- Publication Date: 2008
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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SUMMARY
Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the 19th century weeklies that covered and publicized New York's extensive sexual underworld. As well as providing an overview of this distinct form of urban journalism, this book examines 19th century attitudes to sex.Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the author of 'The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780226112336 and ISBN 0226112330.
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