Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-century France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-century France write by Raymond Birn. This book was released on 2012. Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than envision themselves as agents of state-sponsored repression, the royal book censors of eighteenth-century France wished, through their reports and decisions, to guide the literary traffic of the Enlightenment and expand public awareness of progressive thought.
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature write by Robert Darnton. This book was released on 2014-09-22. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books 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.
The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France write by Robert Darnton. This book was released on 1996. The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
Licensing Loyalty
Licensing Loyalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Licensing Loyalty write by Jane McLeod. This book was released on 2011. Licensing Loyalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.
A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France
A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France write by Johnson Kent Wright. This book was released on 1997-06-01. A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship. Although Mably, whose career as a historian and political theorist stretched from 1740 to the eve of the French Revolution, clearly played a major role in the intellectual history of his era, there has been no study of his life and thought in English for nearly seventy years. At the same time, the book seeks to advance a novel interpretation of Mably's thought. He has most often been portrayed in two sharply contrasted ways, either as one of a handful of utopian communists and a precursor of nineteenth-century socialism, or as a deeply conservative enemy of the Enlightenment. This study sets forth a different reading of Mably's thought, one that shows him to be a classical republican, in the sense this term has acquired in recent years for students of early modern political thought. Mably was the author of the most comprehensive and influential body of republican thought produced in eighteenth-century France—a claim with implications that go beyond the merely biographical. These are explored in a final chapter, which draws some conclusions about the character of classical republicanism in France and about the French contribution to the republican tradition in Europe.
