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Author Robertson, Randy

Title Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England The Subtle Art of Division
Published University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (234 p.)
Contents Intro -- The Penn State Series in the History of the Book -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 -- Back Cover
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Censorship -- England -- History -- 17th century
Censorship
English literature -- Early modern
Politics and literature
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271075280
0271075287