Cyndia Susan Clegg

Press Censorship in Jacobean England

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received in Jacobean England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780521782432
• ISBN-10: 0521782430
• Artikelnr.: 34560280

Autorenporträt

Cyndia Susan Clegg is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Pepperdine University. She is the author of Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Peaceable and Prosperous Reign of our Blessed Queene Elizabeth (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Jacobean press censorship and the 'unsatisfying impasse' in the historiography of Stuart England
1. Authority, license and law: the theory and practice of censorship
2. Burning books as propaganda
3. The personal use of censorship in 'the wincy age'
4. Censorship and the confrontation between prerogative and privilege
5. The press and foreign policy, 1619-24: 'all eies are directed upon Bohemia'
6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship and the rhetoric of silence
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.