Perhaps for the same reason the film Reefer Madness was reissued during the
same cultural period of the sixties/seventies: in the modern context and to
the sensibilities of Grove's readers the work was a parody of itself.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Gertzman [mailto:jgertzma@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 12:33 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: very strange Grove Press imprint
In 1967 Grove Press published LIGHT ON DARKCORNERS: A COMPLETE SEXUAL
SCIENCE AND GUIDE TO PURITY, by B. G. Jefferis and
J. L. Nichols. It is a conservative manual about sex, marriage, neurosis
and disease warning men and women of the hideous results of various
forms of vice and expressing the necessity for restraint of
sensuality, yet taking into account the scientific findings of the
Eugenics
movement. The book was apparently first published in 1916, written by
Jefferis and publisehd by J L Nichols and Company as SEARCH LIGHTS ON
HEALTH; LIGHT ON DARK
CORNERS . . . . Would anyone know why the Grove Press would publish such
a title, especially after it had become well established as a publisher
of sexually explicit and politically left-wing fiction and non-fiction,
including a lot of Victorian erotica?
--
Jay A. Gertzman
The Galaxy APT. 1-33G
7000 Blvd. East
Guttenberg, NJ 07093
jgertzma@earthlink.net
author, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in
Erotica,
1920-40 (U. of Pennsylvania Pr, 1999)
--
Jay A. Gertzman
The Galaxy APT. 1-33G
7000 Blvd. East
Guttenberg, NJ 07093
jgertzma@earthlink.net
author, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica,
1920-40 (U. of Pennsylvania Pr, 1999)