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Title: CENSORS AT WORK - HOW STATES SHAPED LITERATURE
By: Robert Darnton
Format: Hardback

List price: £19.99


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ISBN 10: 0393242293
ISBN 13: 9780393242294
Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
Pub. date: 14 October, 2014
Pages: 304
Description: A fresh perspective on censorship emerges in this elegant history by a superb conjurer of the past. A fresh perspective on censorship emerges in this elegant history by a superb conjurer of the past. With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: US
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Returns: Returnable
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