Censors at work : how states shaped literature
Darnton, Robert2014
Book
A history of censorship begins with Voltaire and Rousseau in eighteenth-century France, continuing to Indian authors who were censored during British imperial rule, and ending with Communist-era East Germany.
Main title:
Censors at work : how states shaped literature / Robert Darnton.
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Collation:
316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-293) and index.
Contents:
Bourbon France : privilege and repression -- Typography and legality -- The censor's point of view -- Everyday operations -- Problem cases -- Scandal and enlightenment -- The book police -- An author in the servants' quarters -- A distribution system, capillaries and arteries -- British India : liberalism and imperialism -- Amateur ethnography -- Melodrama -- Surveillance -- Sedition? -- Repression -- Courtroom hermeneutics -- Wandering minstrels -- The basic contradiction -- Communist East Germany : planning and 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.
ISBN:
9780393242294
Dewey class:
363.31
LC class:
Z657
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
30333
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Society | SOCIETY 363.31 DARN | Available |