Malesherbes: Mémoires Sur La Librairie Et Sur La Liberté de la Presse

by Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

Book Overview

This work is a valuable addition to understanding issues of the press and censorship in France. Rodmell's introduction emphasizes publication problems faced by writers in eighteenth- century France. This edition includes Malesherbes's first and second Memoire, to which Rodmell adds seventeen pages of notes. In his Memoire, Malesherbes suggests changes to the book trade and condemns censorship's arbitrary nature. Rodmell's introductory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807892130
• ISBN13: 9780807892138
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"