Censors at work : how states shaped literature
With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate cult...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English German |
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New York, NY [u.a.] : Norton,
c 2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1st. ed |
| Schlagworte: | Censorship Literature and state Literature, Modern Frankreich Britisch-Indien Deutschland Literatur Staat Zensur Geschichte 1750-1990 mehr... |
| Umfang: | 316 S |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Bourbon France : privilege and repressionTypography 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index