Name: Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U. S. Literature (Post*45) (en Inglés)
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Author: Jordan Carroll
ISBN: 9781503629486

portada Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U. S. Literature (Post*45) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Autor

Jordan Carroll

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781503629486

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia y crítica literaria

Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U. S. Literature (Post*45) (en Inglés)

Jordan Carroll (Autor) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 composed primarily of white men in the professional-managerial class. As Carroll argues, transgressive editors, such as H. L. Mencken at the Smart Set and the 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.