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- First monograph to cover the practice and theory of censorship in eighteenth-century Europe
- Provides unique insight into the role of pre-revolutionary royal censors in France as mediators between writers and authority
- Extensive archival research allows for a general interpretation of the characteristics of censorship in early modern Europe
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 219)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of the Humanities, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy
Edoardo Tortarolo
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Invention of Free Press
Book Subtitle: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe
Authors: Edoardo Tortarolo
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7346-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7345-4Published: 17 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1332-8Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7346-1Published: 09 March 2016
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 200
Topics: History, general, Printing and Publishing, Ethics