The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe

Author:   Edoardo Tortarolo
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   219
ISBN:  

9789401773454


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   17 March 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Edoardo Tortarolo
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   219
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.675kg
ISBN:  

9789401773454


ISBN 10:   9401773459
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   17 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction.- 2. Was Control of the Press Inevitable?.- 3. The English Paradigm.- 4. The Functional Ambiguity of Censorship and the French Enlightenment.- 5. The Royal Censors as Guarantors of Freedom of the Press.- 6. Equivocations and New Meanings.

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Tortarolo (humanities, Univ. of Eastern Piedmont, Italy) has produced a welcome addition to the rapidly growing literature on book and censorship history. He provides an excellent summary of the growing controversy over censorship amid the 18th-century Enlightenment, including the views of such luminaries as Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Marie-Jean de Condorcet, Baron Paul d'Holbach and (French censor) Lamoignon de Malesherbes. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (R. J. Goldstein, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)


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Edoardo Tortarolo was born in Italy in 1956. Educated at the University of Turin, he has taught at several Italian universities, at the University of Leipzig (1997-8), and at Northwestern University (2010 and 2011). In 2006 he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. In 2012-13 he is a member of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, where he is writing a book on the impact of the revolutionary transition from the 1770s to 1820s on the European political and religious beliefs. He is the author of several books on the political culture of the European Enlightenment and most recently a co-editor of volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing (Oxford University Press 2012).

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