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A Night in a Moorish Harem is an erotic novella published in 1896 under the pseudonym "Lord George Herbert". It is written in the first person in the persona of a shipwrecked British sailor, recounting the night he spent in a Moroccan harem with nine concubines of different nationalities. The literary topos of the harem has been classified by some as a typical example of Western literary orientalism.
In December 1923, two New York booksellers, Maurice Inman and Max Gottschalk, were arrested for selling A Night in a Moorish Harem and convicted in March 1924. However, by 1930, a prosecution in Chicago for selling the book failed, as did another in New York in 1931.
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References
- Paul S. Boyer, Purity in Print: book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age (Print Culture History in Modern America), Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2002, ISBN 0-299-17584-7; p. 136
- Gaétan Brulotte, John Phillips, 'Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, CRC Press, 2006, ISBN 1-57958-441-1, p. 441
- Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: the trade in erotica, 1920-1940, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8122-1798-5, pp. 95, 284
- Marie-Luise Kohlke, Luisa Orza, Negotiating Sexual Idioms: image, text, performance. (At the interface/probing the boundaries; 53). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, ISBN 90-420-2491-7, p. 69
- David Goldsmith Loth, The Erotic in Literature: a historical survey of pornography as delightful as it is indiscreet, London: Secker & Warburg, 1961, pp. 139–140
- Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-century England, Transaction Publishers, 2008, ISBN 1-4128-0819-7, p. 268
- İrvin Cemil Schick, The Erotic Margin: sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse, Verso, 1999, ISBN 1-85984-732-3, pp. 200–204
External links
The full text of A Night in a Moorish Harem at Wikisource
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