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From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light.Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for interrogating the margins of sexual culture and literary censorship, and a wide variety of English.

This bibliography lists all the known editions of the work of Denis Janot, a major Parisian printer (fl. 1529-1544); Janot's work exemplifies the change from traditional 'gothic' typography and design to new 'humanist' norms.

Considering the literary and social contexts of Crosby’s life, Linda Hamalian details Crosby’s professional accomplishments and personal struggles. The Cramoisy Queen: also measures the impact of small presses on modernist literature and draws connections between key writers and artists of the era. 

From 1890 to 1960, some of AngloAmerica’s most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for interrogating the margins of sexual culture and literary censorship, and a wide variety of English language “dirty books” circulated through loose expatriate publishing and distribution networks. A Publisher’s Paradise explores the political and literary dynamics that gave rise to this expatriate cultural flourishing, which included everything from Victorian pornography to the most daring and controversial modernist classics. Colette Colligan tracks the British and French politicians and diplomats who policed Paris editions of banned books and uncovers offshore networks of publishers, booksellers, authors, and readers. She looks closely at the stories the “dirty books” told about this publishing haven and the smut peddlers and literary giants it brought together in transnational cultural formations. The book profiles an eclectic group of expatriates living and publishing in Paris, from relatively obscure figures such as Charles Carrington, whose list included both The Picture of Dorian Gray and the pornographic novel Randiana, to bookshop owner Sylvia Beach, famous for publishing James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922. A Publisher’s Paradise is a compelling exploration of the littleknown history of foreign pornography in Paris and the central role it played in turning the city into a modernist outpost for literary and sexual vanguardism, a reputation that still lingers today in our cultural myths of midnight in Paris.

While a number of Australians recorded their extraordinary experiences in France during the two world wars in diaries and memoirs, relatively few accounts of Australians in France are available from the second half of the twentieth century, despite greatly increased travel opportunities during this period. This lack has been more than remedied, however, in the first decade of the twenty-first century: whereas only one book-length memoir was published in the 1990s recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France (Kershaw 1993), an astounding thirty-two have appeared since 2000. This is clearly part of a wider Anglophone publishing phenomenon, following the success of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence (1990). Unlike their British and US counterparts, however, the recent Australian memoirs are overwhelmingly written by women (26 of the 32), who base themselves as often as not in urban rather than in rural France (Genoni 2007).2 They are also clearly marketed to women.