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Dirty jokes and bawdy songs : the uncensored life of Gershon Legman
- Author
- Davis, Susan G., 1953-
- Title
- Dirty jokes and bawdy songs : the uncensored life of Gershon Legman / Susan G. Davis.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- [Urbana] : University of Illinois Press, [2019] ©2019.
- Description
- xv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index. Signed and inscribed by author.
- Summary
- "Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of ertoica. 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." -- from back cover
- Subject headings
- Legman, G. (Gershon), 1917-1999.
- ISBN
- 9780252042614