Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)
The Flash Press Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York - Historical Studies of Urban America
Author: Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, American Antiquarian Society
Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—distinguished by a captivating brew of lowbrow humor and titillating gossip about prosti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226112336
ISBN-10: 0226112330
Publication Date: 5/15/2008
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Rating:
  ?

0 stars, based on 0 rating
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review