Bibliograph

Censors at work, how states shaped literature, Robert Darnton

Type

Label

Censors at work, how states shaped literature, Robert Darnton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Censors at work

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

880520984

Responsibility statement

Robert Darnton

Sub title

how states shaped literature

Table Of Contents

Bourbon France: privilege & repression -- Typography and legality -- The censor's point of view -- Everyday operations -- Problem cases -- Scandal & enlightenment -- Book police -- Author in the servants' quarters -- A distribution system, capillaries & arteries -- British India: liberalism & imperialism -- Amateur ethnography -- Melodrama -- Surveillance -- Sedition? -- Repression -- Courtroom hermeneutics -- Wandering minstrels -- The basic contradiction -- Communist East Germany: planning & persecution -- Native informants -- Inside the archives -- Relations with authors -- Author-editor negotiations -- Hard knocks -- A play : the show must not go on -- A novel : publish and pulp -- How censorship ended

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