Malesherbes: Mémoires Sur la Librairie et Sur la Liberté de la Presse |
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Editor:
| Rodmell, Graham E. |
Series title: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8078-9213-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1979 |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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This work is a valuable addition to understanding issues of the press and censorship in France. Rodmell's introduction emphasizes publication problems faced by writers in eighteenth- century France. This edition includes Malesherbes's first and second
Memoire, to which Rodmell adds seventeen pages of notes. In his
Memoire, Malesherbes suggests changes to the book trade and condemns censorship's arbitrary nature. Rodmell's introductory analysis proposes that Malesherbes...
More DescriptionThis work is a valuable addition to understanding issues of the press and censorship in France. Rodmell's introduction emphasizes publication problems faced by writers in eighteenth- century France. This edition includes Malesherbes's first and second Memoire, to which Rodmell adds seventeen pages of notes. In his Memoire, Malesherbes suggests changes to the book trade and condemns censorship's arbitrary nature. Rodmell's introductory analysis proposes that Malesherbes wanted to make censorship a tool for liberalism.