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.
- ISBN13 9780807892138
- Publish Date 1 January 1979
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 396
- Language English