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020			_a9781503629493 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	0	_aZ658 _b.R433 2021
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aCarroll, Jordan S., _e1
245	1	0	_aReading the obscene : _btransgressive editors and the class politics of U.S. literature / _cJordan S. Carroll.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aPost*45
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aIntroduction : the naked editor -- _tShocking the middle class -- _tAn aristocracy of smut -- _tDecrypting EC Comics -- _tReading Playboy for the science fiction -- _tMad ones, Mad men -- _tWhite-collar masochism -- _tAfterword : transgression in the post-pornographic era
520	0		_a"With Reading the Obscene, Jordan Carroll reveals new insights about the editors who fought the most famous anti-censorship battles of the twentieth century. While many critics have interpreted obscenity as a form of populist protest, Reading the Obscene shows that the editors who worked to dismantle censorship often catered to elite audiences comprised primarily of white men in the professional-managerial class. As Carroll argues, transgressive editors, such as H.L. Mencken at The Smart Set and American Mercury, William Gaines and Al Feldstein at EC Comics, Hugh Hefner at Playboy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books, and Barney Rosset at Grove Press, taught their readers to approach even the most scandalizing texts with the same cold calculation and professional reserve they employed in their occupations. Along the way, these editors kicked off a middle-class sexual revolution in which white-collar professionals imagined they could control sexuality through management science. Obscenity is often presented as self-shattering and subversive, but with this provocative work Carroll calls into question some of the most sensational claims about obscenity, suggesting that when transgression becomes a sign of class distinction, we must abandon the idea that obscenity always overturns hierarchies and disrupts social order"-- _cProvided by publisher.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aCensorship _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aObscenity (Law) _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAnticensorship activists _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEditors _xPolitical activity _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aErotic literature _xPublishing _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPornography _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aMiddle class men _xBooks and reading _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
653			_aUS literature.
653			_acensorship.
653			_aclass.
653			_aeditors.
653			_agender.
653			_aobscenity.
653			_aprofessional-managerial class.
653			_apublishing.
653			_asexuality.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3038137&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell