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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ Pr of Florida
Publication date
April 23, 2013
Pages
387
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780813044170
ISBN-10
0813044170
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.60 lbs.
Original list price
$74.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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âThe first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law. Gertzmanâs wide-ranging knowledge of Roth and the startlingly diverse contexts in which he lived and worked makes this a penetrating and unsurpassed portrait not only of Roth but of the country he inhabited.ââRobert Spoo, coeditor of Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945â1946
âGertzman is to be commended for braiding together so many underappreciated strands of twentieth-century literary, legal, and cultural history.ââPaul K. Saint-Amour, editor of Modernism and Copyright
âSpeaks very importantly and convincingly about American-Jewish identity, censorship, modern publishing, and twentieth-century literature. But equally important is the story the book tells about an enigmaâthe puzzling, contradictory, and often appealing figure of Samuel Roth, whose torturous and fascinating trail Gertzman chronicles with wit and insight.ââMary Dearborn, author of The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller
Samuel Roth was notorious for being a poet, a pornographer, and a pirate. While his own writing reflected the experience of immigrant Jews and he frequently went to prison on obscenity charges, he was mostly known as a bold literary âpirateâ for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterleyâs Lover.
In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals who eventually vilified Roth on two continents.
Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognize good contemporary writing and make it accessible to popular audiences. Ultimately, his dedication to the publication of âindecentâ works broke down many of the censorship laws of the time, though he suffered greatly for his efforts. His story portrays a man who struggled with the moral quandaries of literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century, while trying to reconcile the lucrative act of disseminating provocative works and his own Judaism.
âGertzman is to be commended for braiding together so many underappreciated strands of twentieth-century literary, legal, and cultural history.ââPaul K. Saint-Amour, editor of Modernism and Copyright
âSpeaks very importantly and convincingly about American-Jewish identity, censorship, modern publishing, and twentieth-century literature. But equally important is the story the book tells about an enigmaâthe puzzling, contradictory, and often appealing figure of Samuel Roth, whose torturous and fascinating trail Gertzman chronicles with wit and insight.ââMary Dearborn, author of The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller
Samuel Roth was notorious for being a poet, a pornographer, and a pirate. While his own writing reflected the experience of immigrant Jews and he frequently went to prison on obscenity charges, he was mostly known as a bold literary âpirateâ for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterleyâs Lover.
In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals who eventually vilified Roth on two continents.
Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognize good contemporary writing and make it accessible to popular audiences. Ultimately, his dedication to the publication of âindecentâ works broke down many of the censorship laws of the time, though he suffered greatly for his efforts. His story portrays a man who struggled with the moral quandaries of literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century, while trying to reconcile the lucrative act of disseminating provocative works and his own Judaism.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Univ Pr of Florida (April 23, 2013)
9780813044170 | details & prices | 387 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $74.95
About: âThe first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law.
About: âThe first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law.
With Whitney S. Hibbard |
from Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd List price $46.50
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This edition also contains Forensic Hypnosis: The Practical Application of Hypnosis in Criminal Investigations
About: This comprehensive manual of investigative hypnosis focuses on the application of hypnosis in civil and criminal investigations, particularly for enhancing recall of pertinent details among victims and witnesses.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Univ Pr of Florida (April 30, 2015)
9780813061320 | details & prices | 387 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $34.95
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