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Censors at work : how states shaped literature / Robert Darnton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z657 .D26 2014
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darnton, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Censorship--France--History--18th century.
- Censorship.
- Censorship--India--History--19th century.
- Censorship--Germany (East)--History--20th century.
- Literature and state.
- History.
- France.
- Germany (East).
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393242294
- 0393242293
- OCLC:
- 880520984
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