| Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century 1989 Edition Contributor(s): Goldstein, Robert Justin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333463854 ISBN-13: 9780333463857 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art - Political Science - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
| Dewey: 700 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.09 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe presents a comprehensive account of the attempts by authorities throughout Europe to stifle the growth of political opposition during the nineteenth-century by censoring newspapers, books, caricatures, plays, operas and film. Appeals for democracy and social reform were especially suspect to the authorities, so in Russia cookbooks which refered to 'free air' in ovens were censored as subversive, while in England in 1829 the censor struck from a play the remark that 'honest men at court don't take up much room'. While nineteenth-century European political censorship blocked the open circulation of much opposition writing and art, it never succeeded entirely in its aim since writers, artists and 'consumers' often evaded the censors by clandestine circulation of forbidden material and by the widely practised skill of 'reading between the lines'. |