num_pages: 232
description: An account of attempts by authorities throughout Europe to stifle the growth of political opposition during the 19th century by censoring newspapers books caricatures plays operas and film. The author cites examples and notes that while European political censorship blocked the open circulation of much opposition writing and art it never entirely succeeded in its aim since writers artists and consumers often evaded censors by clandestine circulation of forbidden material and by the widely-practiced skill of reading between the lines.
language: English
title: Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan