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UNINA9910822284903321 |
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Autore |
Clegg Cyndia Susan |
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Titolo |
Press censorship in Jacobean England / / Cyndia Susan Clegg |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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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 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Freedom of the press - England - History - 16th century |
Press - England - History - 16th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes biblioraphical references (p. 269-276) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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