Censorship in Eighteenth-Century France, British India and the German Democratic Republic in the Light of the New Book by Robert Darnton
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https://doi.org/10.12775/TSB.2016.028Keywords
Bourbon France, British India, Censorship, German Democratic Republic, the 18–20th. centuryAbstract
The latest book by R. Darnton is devoted to censorship. The intention of the author was to show how, in selected countries with authoritarian political systems and at various times, the control of the printed word was executed. Comparative analysis was used to compare the functioning of censorship in the following countries: Bourbon France in the 18th century, British India in the 19th century and the German Democratic Republic in the second half of the 20th century. Each of these cases is different, but we can find there are many similarities.
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Darnton Robert, Book Production in British India, 1850–1900, “Book History” 2002, Vol. 5, s. 239–262.
Darnton Robert, Books in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal Imperialism, “Gutenberg-Jahrbuch” 2001, s. 36–59.
Darnton Robert, Censors at Work. How States Shaped Literature, New York–London 2014.
Darnton Robert, Die Zensoren: wie staatliche Kontrolle die Literatur beeinflust hat: vom vorrevolutionȁren Frankreich bis zur DDR, München 2016.
Darnton Robert, Literary Surveillance in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal Imperialism, “Book History” 2001, Vol. 4, s. 133–176 .
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