id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cjgl-2537	Dennis, Donna I.	Obscenity Law and Its Consequences in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America	2007	54	.pdf	application/pdf	23238	936	51	The indictments against Hobbes and Robinson identified the same nine books, a coincidence that suggests these titles comprised the entire corpus of erotic works sold by New York publishers that authorities considered obscene in early 1840s New York.45 All of the books named were published originally in England or France, a sign that American authors had not yet begun to develop sexually arousing themes, at least for commercial distribution.4 6 44 People v. Richard Hobbes, Sept. 28, 1842, District Attorney's Indictment Papers, New York Court of General Sessions (N.Y. Mun. [Vol. 16:1 Obscenity Law and Its Consequences obscene.6' Other titles, such as The Adventures of Silas Shovewell and The Secret Habits of the Female Sex, first surfaced in indictments during the 1850s, but then recurred multiple times, suggesting that they were recent additions to the inventory of New York publishers that soon joined the pornographic canon.	cache/cjgl-2537.pdf	txt/cjgl-2537.txt