Censors at work : how states shaped literature / Robert Darnton
- Bib ID:
- 6576237
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Darnton, Robert, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 0393242293 (hardcover)
- 9780393242294 (hardcover)
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- W.W. Norton & Company, publisher
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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