A Night in a Moorish Harem
Introduction '''''A Night in a Moorish Harem''''' is an erotic novella published in 1896 under the pseudonym "Lord George Herbert". It is written in the first person in the persona of a shipwrecked British sailor, recounting the night he spent in a Moroccan harem with nine concubines of different nationalities. The literary topos of the harem has been classified by some as a typical example of Western literary orientalism.In December 1923, two New York booksellers, Maurice Inman and Max Gottschalk, were arrested for selling ''A Night in a Moorish Harem'' and convicted in March 1924.However, by 1930, a prosecution in Chicago for selling the book failed, as did another in New York in 1931.
See also *''The Lustful Turk''
References * Paul S. Boyer, ''Purity in Print: book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age'' (Print Culture History in Modern America), Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2002, ; p. 136* Gaétan Brulotte, John Phillips, '''Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature'', CRC Press, 2006, , p. 441* Jay A. Gertzman, ''Bookleggers and Smuthounds: the trade in erotica, 1920-1940'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, , pp. 95, 284* Marie-Luise Kohlke, Luisa Orza, ''Negotiating Sexual Idioms: image, text, performance''. (At the interface/probing the boundaries; 53). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, , p. 69* David Goldsmith Loth, ''The Erotic in Literature: a historical survey of pornography as delightful as it is indiscreet'', London: Secker & Warburg, 1961, pp. 139–140* Steven Marcus, ''The Other Victorians: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-century England'', Transaction Publishers, 2008, , p. 268* İrvin Cemil Schick, ''The Erotic Margin: sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse'', Verso, 1999, , pp. 200–204
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