Colette Colligan’s article “Digital Discovery and Fake Imprints: Unmasking Turn-of-the-Century Pornographers in Paris” draws on archives and data to uncover the activities of clandestine European publishers of pornography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The corresponding datasheet models bibliographical data on the underground publications of four such publishers: August Brancart, Aimé-Charles Duringe, Jules Eugène Gauché, and Charles Hirsch. The data is derived from Peter Mendes’s Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800-1930 and Jean-Pierre Dutel’s Bibliographie des Ouvrages Erotiques, 1880-1920, the two most reliable bibliographies that currently exist on clandestine European erotic fiction in French and English during this period.
Dr. Colligan is a professor and cultural historian at Simon Fraser University, working in the fields of nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature, print and media studies, and the history of sexuality.
Dataset of publications of Brancart, Duringe, Gauché, and Hirsch [.xlsx download]
Cite this article:
Colette Colligan, “Dataset of Four Clandestine European Pornography Publishers,” Book History Unbound (2019), https://sharpweb.org/book-history-unbound/2019/colligan.