Censorship and Cultural Sensibility : The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England /

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In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political oppon...

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Main Author: Shuger, Debora K., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politeness (Linguistics)
Freedom of the press.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Formules de politesse > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Formules de politesse > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Liberte de la presse > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Liberte de la presse > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Politeness (Linguistics) > England > History > 17th century.
Politeness (Linguistics) > England > History > 16th century.
Freedom of the press > England > History > 17th century.
Freedom of the press > England > History > 16th century.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "That Great and Immoderate Liberty of Lying"
  • Chapter 2. The Index and the English: Two Traditions of Early Modern Censorship
  • Chapter 3. Roman Law
  • Chapter 4. The Christian Transmission of Roman Law Iniuria
  • Chapter 5. The Law of All Civility
  • Chapter 6. Defendants' Rights and Poetic Justice
  • Chapter 7. Hermeneutics, History, and the Delegitimation of Censorship
  • Chapter 8. Intent
  • Chapter 9. Ideological Censorship
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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