Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century

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'.

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Robert Justin Goldstein is emeritus professor of political science at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan and currently a research associate at the Center for Russian, E. European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). *Professor Goldstein is the author of Political Repression in Modern America (1978) and Political Repression in Nineteenth-Century Europe* (1983) and also published an additional 15 single-authored or edited books dealing with civil liberties struggles in modern American and European history.

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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'.

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List of Plates Preface The Context of Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe Political Censorship of the Press Political Censorship of Caricature Political Censorship of the Theatre Political Censorship of the Opera Political Censorship of the Cinema Conclusions Notes Index