Censors at work : how states shaped literature
Darnton, Robert2014
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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.
Main title:
Censors at work : how states shaped literature / by Robert Darnton
Author:
Darnton, RobertW.W. Norton & Company, publisher
Imprint:
New York NY W.W. Norton & Company [2014]
Collation:
316 pages
Notes:
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
ISBN:
9780393242294 (hardback)
Dewey class:
363.31 CEN
Local class:
363.31
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
91807
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 363.31 CEN | hbk.Available |
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 363.31 CEN | hbk.Available |