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"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.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Freedom of the press > England > History > 16th century.
Freedom of the press > England > History > 17th century.
Press > England > History > 16th century.
Press > England > History > 17th century.
Censorship > England > History > 16th century.
Censorship > England > History > 17th century.
Liberté de la presse > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Liberté de la presse > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Presse > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Presse > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Censorship
Freedom of the press
Press
Pressezensur
Boekwezen.
Censuur.
Persvrijheid.
England
Humaniora > Historie.
History
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.

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