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- Book Title
- Reading the Obscene
- Publication Name
- Reading the Obscene : Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of Us Literature
- Title
- Reading the Obscene
- Subtitle
- Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1503629481
- EAN
- 9781503629486
- ISBN
- 9781503629486
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Subject
- Manga
- Release Date
- 23/11/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Post*45 Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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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. Winner of the 2022 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, sponsored by the Modern Language Association
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
1503629481
ISBN-13
9781503629486
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14050381559
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Reading the Obscene : Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of Us Literature
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Post*45 Ser.
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Z658.U5c37 2021
Reviews
In Carroll's hands, the question of obscenity in midcentury literature has a whole new conceptual frame and in the figure of the editor , a whole new protagonist. Going where few critical works before it have dared to tread, this is a highly persuasive and lucidly readable contribution to twentieth-century American cultural studies., "What draws us to the obscene? It's a question scholars rarely ask because the allure of the forbidden seems so obvious. What if, though, for the white male professional-managerial class of the mid-to-late twentieth century, the enticement of the obscene was not so hot but rather cool? What if the point of reading smut was not to indulge in prurient interest but to show oneself capable of overcoming such base impulses? Not to masturbate, but to master? Such is the gambit of Jordan S. Carroll's Reading the Obscene , which charts a bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics."--Whitney Strub, The Baffler, What draws us to the obscene? It's a question scholars rarely ask because the allure of the forbidden seems so obvious. What if, though, for the white male professional-managerial class of the mid-to-late twentieth century, the enticement of the obscene was not so hot but rather cool? What if the point of reading smut was not to indulge in prurient interest but to show oneself capable of overcoming such base impulses? Not to masturbate, but to master? Such is the gambit of Jordan S. Carroll's Reading the Obscene , which charts a bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics., "[I]n his Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature , Jordan S. Carroll is interested in a different, subtler aspect of the era's creeping corporatization. Rather than examining how the economics of publishing affected culture, Carroll considers how its class politics drove the industry's challenges to censorship, asserting that the 'values and training of the professional-managerial class (PMC)' were the driving force behind publishing's challenges to obscenity laws."--Greg Barnhisel, American Literary History, "Carroll's surprising argument is that editors trained PMC men in the exigent art of cool detachment through obscenity.... Reading the Obscene teems with telling details and relishes double-entendres."--Dan Sinykin, ASAP/Journal, "A thoroughly enjoyable examination of the role that literary obscenity played in forging the professional-managerial white male commitment to 'free speech.' Jordan Carroll shows that defending obscene literature enshrined modes of dispassion that served liberals' professional climbing."--Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, "In Carroll's hands, the question of obscenity in midcentury literature has a whole new conceptual frame and in the figure of the editor , a whole new protagonist. Going where few critical works before it have dared to tread, this is a highly persuasive and lucidly readable contribution to twentieth-century American cultural studies."--Mark McGurl, Stanford University
Table of Content
Introduction: The Naked Editor 1. Shocking the Middle Class 2. An Aristocracy of Smut 3. Decrypting EC Comics 4. Reading Playboy for the Science Fiction 5. Mad Ones, Mad Men 6. White-Collar Masochism Conclusion: Transgression in the Post-pornographic Era
Copyright Date
2021
Topic
Communication Studies, General, American / General, Comics & Graphic Novels
Lccn
2021-007431
Dewey Decimal
363.3109730904
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
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