Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography—the word was not coined until the late 18th century—which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and literature of the French enlightenment, and the poems of the Earl of Rochester and John Cleland's Fanny Hill. From the secret museums to the pornography trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterly's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Kendrick explores how conceptions of pornography relate to issues of freedom of expression and censorship.
The Secret Museum Pornography in Modern Culture, With a new afterword
About the Book
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
ONE
ORIGINS
TWO
THE PRE-P0RNOGRAPHIC ERA
THREE
ADVENTURES OF THE YOUNG PERSON
FOUR
TRIALS OF THE WORD
FIVE
THE AMERICAN OBSCENE
SIX
GOOD INTENTIONS
SEVEN
HARD AT THE CORE
EIGHT
THE POST-PORNOGRAPHIC ERA
AFTERWORD , 1996
REFERENCE NOTES
LIST OF WORKS CITED
INDEX