Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
by
Judith Giesberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into...