id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12907 Oboler, Eli M. Literature, Obscenity & Law (Book Review) 1976-11-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 686 41 61 Her book is comprehensive and clear but could have profited from more attention to the efforts of those groups and individuals who led the anticensorship fight-the American Civil Liberties Union (one brief reference) and the American Library As- sociation (unmentioned), for example. Near- ly one-third of the book's text (seventy- eight pages) is devoted to detailed descrip- tions and/ or illustrative quotations from fiction, poetry, and drama involved in American obscenity cases since 1890 (which, the author claims, was the begin- ning of both a sexual revolution in Amer- ican fiction and of the first really substan- tial effort to censor by law and legal action such fiction without regard to literary mer- it). cache/crl-12907.pdf txt/crl-12907.txt