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American Antiquarian Society, Patricia Cline Cohen, Patricia Cline Gilfoyle Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Flash Press - Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

English · Hardback

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Description

Including short tales of urban life, editorials on prostitution, and moralizing rants against homosexuality, this work features selections that epitomize a distinct form of urban journalism. It provides an overview of this colorful reportage, its editors, and its audience, and examines nineteenth-century ideas of sexuality and freedom.

Product details

Authors	American Antiquarian Society, Patricia Cline Cohen, Patricia Cline Gilfoyle Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher	University Of Chicago Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	29.05.2009

EAN	9780226112336
ISBN	978-0-226-11233-6
No. of pages	272
Dimensions	159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
Series	Historical Studies of Urban Am
Subject	Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias

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