Press censorship in Jacobean England / / Cyndia Susan Clegg [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450277203321
• Autore: Clegg Cyndia Susan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-107-12070-5; 1-280-15918-9; 0-511-04625-1; 0-511-11875-9; 0-511-15356-2; 0-511-32794-3; 0-511-48351-1; 0-511-01771-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 323.44/5/094209031
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes biblioraphical references (p. 269-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received during the reign of King James I. It challenges ; prevailing attitudes that press censorship in Jacobean England differed little from either the 'whole machinery of control' enacted by the Court of Star Chamber under Elizabeth or the draconian campaign implemented by Archbishop Laud, during the reign of Charles I. Cyndia Clegg, building on her earlier study Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under King James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts and exposes the kinds of tensions that really mattered in Jacobean culture. It will be an invaluable resource for literary scholars and historians alike.