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Author Clegg, Cyndia Susan

Title Press censorship in Caroline England / by Cyndia Susan Clegg
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Censorship and the law: the Caroline inheritance; Chapter 2 Print in the time of Parliament: 1625-1629; Chapter 3 Transformational literalism: the reactionary redefinition of the courts of High Commission and Star Chamber; Chapter 4 Censorship and the Puritan press; Chapter 5 The printers and press control in the 1630s; Chapter 6 The end of censorship; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Between 1625 and 1640, a distinctive cultural awareness of censorship emerged, which ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of Caroline censorship as either draconian or benign. Such contradictions transpire because the Caroline regime and its critics employed similar rhetorical strategies that depended on the language of orthodoxy, order, tradition, and law, but to achieve different ends. Building on her two previous studies on press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg scrutinizes all aspects of Caroline print culture: book production in London, the universities, and on the Continent; licensing and authorization practices in both the Stationers' Company and among the ecclesiastical licensers; cases before the courts of High Commission and Star Chamber and the Stationers' Company's Court of Assistants; and trade regulation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index
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Subject Freedom of the press -- England -- History -- 17th century
Government and the press -- England -- History -- 17th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Freedom of the press.
Government and the press.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1625-1649. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056892
Subject England.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008275060
ISBN 0511394403
9780511394409
9780511395055
0511395051
9786611370787
6611370781