TY - BOOK AU - Darnton,Robert TI - Censors at work: how states shaped literature SN - 9780393242294 AV - Z657 .D26 2014 U1 - 363.31 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - Censorship KW - France KW - History KW - 18th century KW - India KW - 19th century KW - Germany (East) KW - 20th century KW - Literature and state N1 - 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 ER -