英语词汇comstockery的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

comstockery. About 160 tons of books, stereotyped plates, magazines, and pictures were destroyed by Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), founder of the New York Society for the Suppres- sion of Vice, in his long career as a self-appointed crusader against immorality in literature. Comstock, who inspired Bos- ton’s Watch and Ward Society, headed a YMCA campaign against obscene literature in 1873, the same year in which he came to national prominence by founding his society and se- curing federal passage of the so-called Comstock Laws to ex- clude objectionable matter from the mails. Appointed special agent of the Post Office Department and chief special agent for the Society, Comstock had the power of an inquisitor, and com- stockery became a synonym for narrowminded, bigoted, and self-righteous moral censorship. The crusader particularly ob- jected to George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Shaw coined the word, making good clean fun of the cen- sor’s name.

词汇	comstockery
词源	comstockery. About 160 tons of books, stereotyped plates, magazines, and pictures were destroyed by Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), founder of the New York Society for the Suppres- sion of Vice, in his long career as a self-appointed crusader against immorality in literature. Comstock, who inspired Bos- ton’s Watch and Ward Society, headed a YMCA campaign against obscene literature in 1873, the same year in which he came to national prominence by founding his society and se- curing federal passage of the so-called Comstock Laws to ex- clude objectionable matter from the mails. Appointed special agent of the Post Office Department and chief special agent for the Society, Comstock had the power of an inquisitor, and com- stockery became a synonym for narrowminded, bigoted, and self-righteous moral censorship. The crusader particularly ob- jected to George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Shaw coined the word, making good clean fun of the cen- sor’s name.
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