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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822284903321

Autore

Clegg Cyndia Susan

Titolo

Press censorship in Jacobean England / / Cyndia Susan Clegg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

Press - England - History - 16th 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.