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Adams, Helen R. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, Ashbee, Henry S. Asheim, L. Whittier, California. Frederick Mosher. Chicago: American Library Association, , Barco, Kathy and Valerie Nye. Chicago: American Library Association, Barrier, N. Basbanes, Nicholas. A Splendor of Letters: the permanence of books in an impermanent world. New York: Harpercollins, Birn, Raymond. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Today, we are inclined to believe that intellectual freedom has no greater adversary than the censor. In eighteenth-century France, the matter was more complicated. Royal censors envisioned themselves not as fulfilling a mission of state-sponsored repression but rather as guiding the literary traffic of the Enlightenment.
By awarding pre-publication and pre-distribution approvals, royal censors sought to insulate authors and publishers from the scandal of post-publication condemnation by parliaments, the police, or the Church. Less official authorizations were also awarded. Though censors did delete words and phrases from manuscripts and sometimes rejected manuscripts altogether, the liberal use of tacit permissions and conditional approvals resulted in the publication and circulation of books that, under a less flexible system, might never have seen the light of day.
In essence, eighteenth-century French censors served as cultural intermediaries who bore responsibility for expanding public awareness of the progressive thought of their time. Blume, Judy ed. Bosmajian, Haig editor. Censorship, Libraries, and the Law. New York: Neal-Schuman, Boyer, Paul. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Bowerman, George.
Censorship and the Public Library. Whitefish: Literary Licensing, Byrne, Alex. May , Vol.
Califia, Pat; Fuller, Janine eds. Caravale, Giorgio. Carefoot, Pearce J. Cohen, Karl F.
Cohen, Nick. London: Fourth Estate, From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web, everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living in an age of unparalleled freedom. Rather, this is a story that starts with the cataclysmic reaction of the Left and Right to the publication and denunciation of the Satanic Verses in that saw them jump into bed with radical extremists.
It ends at the juncture where even in the transgressive, liberated West, where so much blood had been spilt for Freedom, where rebellion is the conformist style and playing the dissenter the smart career move in the arts and media, you can write a book and end up destroyed or dead.
Darnton, Robert. London: HarperCollins, Franklin, New York, Foerstel, Herbert. Banned in the U. Westport: Greenwood Publishing, Godman, Peter. Leiden: Brill, The opening of the archives of the Roman Inquisition and of the Index of Prohibited Books, in January , enables us to think afresh about the history of two organizations more notorious than understood. Both have been considered, almost exclusively, from the perspective of their victims, such as Galileo Galilei.
His career provides a paradigm of how an intellectual could make his way to the top in Counter-Reformation Rome. Goodman, Michael B. Bowker, New York, Heady, Katy.
Rochester: Camden House, Jacobsens ed. Karolides, Nicholas J. Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. Lankford, Ronnie D. Book Banning At Issue Series. London Writers and Scholars International, ed. Messner, NewYork, McDonald, Peter D. Maclean, Ian. McClellan, Marilyn. Milton, John. New Haven: Yale University Press, Mullin, Katherine.
Patterson, Annabel. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon.
Hebrew literature made the transition to print in Italian print houses, most of which were owned by Christians. These became lively meeting places for Christian scholars, rabbis, and the many converts from Judaism who were employed as editors and censors. Popper, William. The Censorship of Hebrew Books. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, This book was originally published prior to , and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.
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The book examines the development of censorship as part of the institutionalization of new measures of control over literature in this period, suggesting that we view surveillance of Hebrew literature not only as a measure directed against the Jews but also as a part of the rise of Hebraist discourse and therefore as a means of integrating Jewish literature into the Christian canon. The censorship imposed upon the Jews had a definite impact on Hebrew literature, but it hardly denied its reading, in fact confirming the right of the Jews to possess and use most of their literature.
By bringing together two apparently unrelated issues—the role of censorship in the creation of print culture and the place of Jewish culture in the context of Christian society—Raz-Krakotzkin advances a new outlook on both, allowing each to be examined through the conceptual framework usually reserved for the other.