Censors at work : how states shaped literature /
Robert Darnton.
- First Edition.
- 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-293) and index.
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.
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Censorship--History--France--18th century. Censorship--History--India--19th century. Censorship--History--Germany (East)--20th century. Literature and state.