Robert Darnton, "Censors at Work - How States Shaped Literature"
English | ISBN: 0393242293 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF (Scan) | 29 MB
English | ISBN: 0393242293 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF (Scan) | 29 MB
With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression. In eighteenth-century France, censors navigated the intricacies of royal privilege in a working collaboration with authors and booksellers on the making of literature.