The Flash Press : Sporting male weeklies in 1840s New York

 

Patricia Cline Cohen & 

Timothy J. Gilfoyle &

Helen Lefkowitz

in association with the

American Antiquarian Society

The Flash Press

Sporting male weeklies in 1840s New York

University of Chicago Press

Chicago, U.S.A.

280 pages, 2008

ISBN : 978-0-226-11234-3

Part I. The Flash Press

     1. Beginnings : Rivalry and satire

     2. Sexual politics

     3. Trials and tribulations

     4. Legacies

Part II. Flash Press excerpts

     1. Purposes

     2. Libertinism

     3. Brothel life

     4. Heterosexuality

     5. Gossip, vituperation, and blackmail

     6. Racism, anti-amalgamation

     7. Homosexuality

     8. Indictments

     9. Sports and Theater in the Flash world

     10. The illustrations of John H. Manning

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Notes

Index