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Book SynopsisThe influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under scrutiny can hardly be overstated. With censorship still employed in many regions of the world today, readers will discover various striking differences—as well as numerous astounding similarities—to current practices of censorship in this book.
Table of ContentsAuthor’s Foreword List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 1 On the Theory of Censorship Research: “Old” or “New” Censorship? 2 The Historical-Sociological Definition of Censorship: Exercise of Political Power versus the Autonomy of Literature 3 Modalities of Censorship over Time 4 How Dangerous Is Literature? 2 In the Service of the Enlightenment: Censorship between 1751 and 1791 1 What Went Before: Censorship in the Early Modern Period 2 The Censorship Commission under Maria Theresa 3 The Josephinian-Leopoldinian Era 4 Commented Statistics of Prohibition Activity between 1754 and 1791 3 Censorship as an Instrument of Repression: The Era of Napoleon and the Vormärz Period (1792–1848) 1 Between the French Revolution and Student Unrest: Censorship from 1792 to 1820 2 Censorship in the Pre-march Period (1821–1848) 3 Commented Statistics of Prohibition Activity between 1792 and 1848 4 A Look at the Crown Lands 1 The Kingdom of Bohemia (1750–1848) (by Petr Píša and Michael Wögerbauer) 2 The Italian-Speaking Territories of the Habsburg Monarchy (1768–1848) (by Daniel Syrovy) 5 The Censorship of Theater 1 Theater Censorship in the Name of the Enlightenment under Maria Theresa and Joseph II (1770–1790) 2 Theater Censorship under Francis II/I and Ferdinand I (1792–1848) 6 Case Studies 1 Periodicals 2 Chroniques scandaleuses 3 The Theme of Suicide in Forbidden Literature 4 The Period of Weimar Classicism 5 The Romanticists 6 The Historical Novel 7 English Plays 8 French Drama of the July Monarchy 7 Outlook Appendix Bibliography Index of Named Persons Index of Publishers and Booksellers Index of Periodicals
