商品簡介
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class's time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.
"...a highly informative and readable volume…an important book which gathers new research about the theatre that did exist in 19th-century Europe, and the theatre that did not." - The Journal of Theatre Research International
"Each chapter is equipped with a substantial and informative biographical essay,providing readers with a reading list of their next visit to the library." - Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d/histoire
"The book is distinguished by its thematic and stylistic unity…Splendid as a compact synthesis of a large amount of specialized research, it will also be of great value in teaching at universities and comparable institutions." - Nyt fra Historien
"That this volume offers a mass of often very colorful details allows for intriguing new questions about individual countries' practices…the chapters themselves provide excellent introductions to each case study. The detailed bibliographical essays that follow each essay may well stimulate more comparative research in the future." - H-German
作者簡介
Robert Justin Goldstein is Emeritus Professor of political science at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and Research Associate at the Center for Russian & Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has written and edited numerous books on modern American and European history, including Political Repression in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1983), Political Censorship of the Arts & the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1989) and (ed.) The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2000).
List of Contributors:Norbert Bachleitner, John A. Davis, David T. Gies, Robert Justin Goldstein, Gary D. Stark & Anthony Swift
