03443nam 2200805 450 991082232090332120230721021459.00-271-07528-70-271-04980-40-271-03655-910.1515/9780271036557(CKB)1000000000756195(SSID)ssj0000119280(PQKBManifestationID)11143381(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119280(PQKBWorkID)10057081(PQKB)10966272(MiAaPQ)EBC3384965(MiAaPQ)EBC6224600(DE-B1597)584333(DE-B1597)9780271036557(OCoLC)341258828(MdBmJHUP)musev2_86433(OCoLC)1253313036(EXLCZ)99100000000075619520200929d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCensorship and conflict in seventeenth-century England the subtle art of division /Randy RobertsonUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :Pennsylvania State University Press,[2009]©2009xv, 272 pThe Penn State series in the history of the bookBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-271-03466-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction --1 ‘‘Consider What May Come of It’’: Prynne’s Play and Charles’s Stately Theater --2 Lovelace and the ‘‘Barbed Censurers’’ --3 Free Speech, Fallibility, and the Public Sphere: Milton Among the Skeptics --4 The Delicate Arts of Anonymity and Attribution --5 The Battle of the Books: Swift’s Leviathan and the End of Licensing --Conclusion: Dividing Lines—1689, 1695, and Afterward --Notes --Select Bibliography --Index"Examines censorship in seventeenth-century England. Focuses on authors whose concerns and commitments were equally political and aesthetic, including William Prynne, Richard Lovelace, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Jonathan Swift. Analyzes both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced"--Provided by publisher.Penn State series in the history of the book.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryCensorshipEnglandHistory17th centuryEngland.Robertson.authors.censorship.conflict.division.language.licensing system.literature.modern writing.printers.publishers.representation.English literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryCensorshipHistory363.310942/09032Robertson Randy1969-1690306MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822320903321Censorship and conflict in seventeenth-century England4065928UNINA