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Censors at Work - How States Shaped Literature (Paperback)
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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
incubated Diderot's great Encyclopedie by hiding the banned
project's papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court
trumped principle in the Old Regime. Shaken by the Sepoy uprising
in 1857, the British Raj undertook a vast surveillance of every
aspect of Indian life, including its literary output. Years later
the outrage stirred by the British partition of Bengal led the Raj
to put this knowledge to use. Seeking to suppress Indian
publications that it deemed seditious, the British held hearings in
which literary criticism led to prison sentences. Their efforts to
meld imperial power and liberal principle fed a growing Indian
opposition. In Communist East Germany, censorship was a component
of the party program to engineer society. Behind the unmarked
office doors of Ninety Clara-Zetkin Street in East Berlin, censors
developed annual plans for literature in negotiation with high
party officials and prominent writers. A system so pervasive that
it lodged inside the authors' heads as self-censorship, it left
visible scars in the nation's literature. By rooting censorship in
the particulars of history, Darnton's revealing study enables us to
think more clearly about efforts to control expression past and
present.
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