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
