Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 /

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This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ingram, Robert G. (Editor ), Peacey, Jason (Editor ), Barber, Alex W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Colección:Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Temas:
Freedom of speech > History.
Religious pluralism.
Hate speech.
Liberté d'expression > Histoire.
Propagande haineuse.
Freedom of speech
Hate speech
Religious pluralism
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Freedom of speech in England and the anglophone world, 1500-1850
  • Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England
  • Pearls before swine: limiting godly speech in early seventeenth-century England
  • 'Free speech' in Elizabethan and early Stuart England
  • The origins of the concept of freedom of the press
  • Swift and free speech
  • Defending the truth: arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth-century Britain and France
  • 'The warr ... against heaven by blasphemors and infidels': prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England
  • David Hume and 'Of the Liberty of the Press' (1741) in its original contexts
  • The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the US Constitution, 1787-88
  • Before
  • and beyond
  • On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth-century theory of free speech
  • Unfree, unequal, unempirical: press freedom, British India and Mill's theory of the public
  • Index.

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