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Author:

Darnton, Robert, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Censorship--18th century.--History--18th century.
Censorship--19th century.--History--19th century.
Censorship--20th century.--History--20th century.
Literature and state.
History.

Other Authors:

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0393242293
9780393242294

LCCN:

2014010997

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)