Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-293) and index.
Contents
Bourbon France : privilege and repression -- Typography and legality -- The censor's point of view -- Everyday operations -- Problem cases -- Scandal and enlightenment -- The book police -- An author in the servants' quarters -- A distribution system, capillaries and arteries -- British India : liberalism and imperialism -- Amateur ethnography -- Melodrama -- Surveillance -- Sedition? -- Repression -- Courtroom hermeneutics -- Wandering minstrels -- The basic contradiction -- Communist East Germany : planning and persecution -- Native informants -- Inside the archives -- Relations with authors -- Author-editor negotiations -- Hard knocks -- A play : the show must not go on -- A novel : publish and pulp -- How censorship ended.
