Pornography’s Past: Sexual Publishing

In this sense, the grotesque violence featured in racy novels flew in the face of all that antebellum moralists were trying to achieve. See KAREN HALTTUNEN, MURDER MOST FOUL: THE KILLER AND THE AMERICAN GOTHIC IMAGINATION 60-90 (1998). Reynolds & Gladman, supra note 77, at xxvi (quoting CONFESSIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF A NOVEL READER 11 (1855)). ................
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