Press Censorship in Caroline England

Klappentext Between 1625 and 1640, a distinctive cultural awareness of censorship emerged, which ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of Caroline censorship as either draconian or benign. Such contradictions transpire because the Caroline regime and its critics employed similar rhetorical strategies that depended on the language of orthodoxy, order, tradition, and law, but to achieve different ends. Building on her two previous studies on press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg scrutinizes all aspects of Caroline print culture: book production in London, the universities, and on the Continent; licensing and authorization practices in both the Stationers' Company and among the ecclesiastical licensers; cases before the courts of High Commission and Star Chamber and the Stationers' Company's Court of Assistants; and trade regulation. Zusammenfassung Following her two previous studies of press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England! Cyndia Clegg takes the story through the next volatile period. She explores the distinctive culture of censorship that emerged between 1625 and 1640! and ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Censorship and the law: the Caroline inheritance; 2. Print in the time of parliament: 1625-1629; 3. Transformational literalism: the reactionary redefinition of the Courts of High Commission and Star Chamber; 4. Censorship and the puritan press; 6. The end of censorship.

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• Authors: Cyndia Susan Clegg, Cyndia Susan (Pepperdine University Clegg, Clegg Cyndia Susan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521182850
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18285-0
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; England, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, European History, HISTORY / Social History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, News media and journalism, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Ethical issues and debates