Literature and Censorship in Restoration Germany: Repression and Rhetoric

by Katy Heady

The effects -- both inhibitory and creative -- of the 1819-1848 censorship on German-language literary writing.

In 1819, the German Confederation promulgated the infamous Carlsbad Decrees, establishing censorship standards aimed at thwarting the political aspirations of post-Napoleonic Germany's rapidly emerging public sphere. This most comprehensive system of state censorship to that point in German lands remained in place until the revolutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134174
• ISBN13: 9781571134172
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"