Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs

The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman

Susan Davis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2019
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08444-7 (ISBN)

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Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman’s prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden. Susan G. Davis follows the life and times of the figure driven to share what he found in civilization's secret libraries. Self-taught and fiercely unaffiliated, Legman collected the risqué on street corners and in theaters and dug it out of little-known archives. If the sexual humor he uncovered often used laughter to disguise hostility and fear, he still believed it indispensable to the human experience. Davis reveals Legman in all his prickly, provocative complexity as an outrageous nonconformist thundering at a wrong-headed world while reveling in conflict, violating laws and boundaries with equal abandon, and pursuing love and improbable adventures. Through it all, he maintained a kaleidoscopic network of friends, fellow intellectuals, celebrity admirers, and like-minded obsessives.

Susan G. Davis is professor emerita of Communication and Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience.

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Stranger
Chapter Two: Sex Researcher
Chapter Three: Kinsey's Bibliographer
Chapter Four: Love & Death
Chapter 5: Neurotica
Chapter Six: Advanced Studies
Chapter Seven: "The Ballad" and The Horn Book
Chapter Eight: The Key to the Fields
Chapter Nine: The Hell Drawer
Chapter Ten: Under Mt. Cheiron
List of Works Consulted
Unpublished Works
Interviews
Archives of Papers and Letters

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
Zusatzinfo	14 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08444-6 / 0252084446
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08444-7 / 9780252084447
Zustand	Neuware