Malesherbes: Mémoires sur la librairie et sur la liberté de la presse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807892138)

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 wanted to make censorship a tool for liberalism.

Author: Graham E. Rodmell
ISBN-10: 0807892130
ISBN-13: 9780807892138
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1979
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d