Poetics of the Pillory - English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1660-1700. Faint Meaning: Dryden and Restoration Censorship


• 1700-1740. Libels in Hieroglyphics: Pope, Defoe


• 1730-1780. The Trade of Libelling: Fielding, Johnson


• 1780-1820. Southey's New Star Chamber: Literature, Revolution, and Romantic-Era Libel


• Conclusion: England in 1820

About the author

Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Before moving to Toronto in 2006, he taught for six years at Royal Holloway, University of London, and for ten years at St Anne's College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Historical Society, and the English Association, and has also held fellowships with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and All Souls College, Oxford. His work is mainly focused on Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic-era British and Irish literature. Between 2013 and 2017 he directed the University of Toronto's Graduate Program in Book History & Print Culture, and he currently serves as General Editor of the Review of English Studies (OUP) and co-General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works & Correspondence of Samuel Richardson.

Summary

This volume explores literary censorship from 1660 to 1820 and examines the relationship between pervasive literary modes of the long eighteenth century and the control of seditious libel and punishment in the public pillory.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Keymer, Thomas (Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Uni Keymer, Keymer Thomas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198744498
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874449-8
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Clarendon Lectures in English
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, LAW / Defamation, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Defamation law (slander & libel), LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Defamation law, slander and libel