Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393351804ISBN-10:393351807UPC:9780393351804Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, AsiaBook Topic:France, South, GermanySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDT1T3D0B
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
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 culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393351804ISBN-10:393351807UPC:9780393351804Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, AsiaBook Topic:France, South, GermanySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDT1T3D0B
Darnton, Robert: - Robert Darnton is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard University. His honors include a MacArthur Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and election to the French Legion of Honor. He is the author of Censors at Work, The Great Cat Massacre, and The Forbidden Bestsellers of...
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