Censors at work : how states shaped literature

Censors at work : how states shaped literature / Robert Darnton.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Darnton, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Censorship > France > History > 18th century.
Censorship > India > History > 19th century.
Censorship > Germany (East) > History > 20th century.
Literature and state.
Table of 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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