Lindsay DiCuirci on Traps for the Young: Comstockery and Its Legacies
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. There’s nothing like a good moral panic about how young people are spending their time to get the blood boiling – whether it’s the presence of a pool table (Trouble, right here in River City!), corrupting comic books, or the perils of Snapchat. That’s why Anthony Comstock’s 1883 conduct book Traps […]