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Censors at work : how states shaped literature
Author
Title
Censors at work : how states shaped literature / Robert Darnton.
ISBN
9780393242294
0393242293
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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