Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

by Robert Darnton

Book Overview

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 celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393242293
• ISBN13: 9780393242294
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"