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Press censorship in Jacobean England /

"Press Censorship in Jacobean England examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. The book challenges prevailing attitudes that press censorship in Jacobean England differed little from either the "whole machinery of control" en...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clegg, Cyndia Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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, 1619-1624: "all eies are directed upon Bohemia"
  • 6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship, and the rhetoric of silence.