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

• 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.

Ämnesord

Literature and state.  (LCSH)

Censorship  -- France -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Censorship  -- India -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Censorship  -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Censorship.  (fast)

Literature and state.  (fast)

Litterär censur  -- historia (sao)

Teatercensur  -- historia (sao)

Litteratur och politik  -- historia (sao)

Frankrike  (sao)

Indien  (sao)

Östtyskland  (sao)

France.  (fast)

Germany (East)  (fast)

India.  (fast)

1700-talet  (sao)

1800-talet  (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

1700 - 1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

Z657 (LCC)

363.31 (DDC)

Oh (kssb/8 (machine generated))