Author: Ohles, Frederik.
Title: Germany's rude awakening : censorship in the land of the Brothers Grimm.
Description: Kent : Kent State University Press,1992. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. x,227p. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. From the publishers : Germany's Rude Awakening depicts the rise and fall of censorship in the age of the Brothers Grimm and Prince Metternich. Focusing on the Grimms homeland of Hesse-Cassel, Frederik Ohles illus trates how censorship first awakened to the challenge posed by new political forces and liter ary forms, then lost its effectiveness as more and more Germans read and wrote what they wanted, finding ways to evade both censors and police. Ohles examines actual practices, looking be yond the legislation of the German Confedera tion and the pronouncements of Prince Metter nich. He explores the effects of the laws on the censors' work, analyzes the political influence of Prussia and Austria on the Principality of Hesse (situated at the crossroads of the German Con federation), and interprets the results of censor ship on literature, politics, the book trade, and public and private life. In telling the story of a momentous struggle between old and new views of politics and literature, he shows that while cen sorship became a public issue in 19th-century Germany, it failed as a policing institution. Ohles's extensive research includes police ar chives, early issues of the bookdealers' gazette published in Marburg, recollections of the Brothers Grimm, the Hessian collection of ar tistic and scholarly memoirs, and travelers' ac counts. The result is a work that will appeal to specialists in 19th-centvry German history and literature as well as historians of censorship, publishing, and German political culture. It also complements current historical debates about communications, public culture, and the mod ernization of bureaucracy. ISBN 9780873384605.

Keywords: HISTORY, censorship, Zensur