Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ingram, Robert; Barber, Alex W.; Peacey, Jason

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech. It integrates religion into the history of free speech and rethinks what is sometimes regarded as a coherent tradition of more or less absolutist justifications for free expression. Contributors examine the aims and effectiveness of government policies, the sometimes contingent ways in which freedom of speech became a reality and a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts in which contemporaries outlined their ideas and ideals. Overall, the book argues that while the period from 1500 to 1850 witnessed considerable change in terms of both ideas and practices, these were more or less distinct from those that characterise modern debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526147097
• Artikelnr.: 59280893

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History at Ohio University Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London Alex W. Barber is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at Durham University

Inhaltsangabe

1 Freedom of speech in England and the Anglophone world, 1500
1850
Jason Peacey, Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber 2 Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England
Joanne Paul 3 Pearls before swine: limiting godly speech in early seventeenth
century England
Karl Gunther 4 'Free speech' in Elizabethan and early Stuart England
Peter Lake 5 The origins of the concept of freedom of the press
David Como 6 Swift and free speech
David Womersley 7 Defending the truth: arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth
century Britain and France
Ann Thomson 8 'The warr... against heaven by blasphemors and infidels': prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England
Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber 9 David Hume and 'Of the Liberty of the Press' (1741) in its original contexts
Max Skjönsberg 10 The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, 1787
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Patrick Peel 11 Before
and beyond
On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth
century theory of free speech
Greg Conti 12 Unfree, unequal, unempirical: press freedom, British India and Mill's theory of the public
Christopher Barker Index