Press Censorship in Jacobean England Hardback
by Cyndia Susan (Pepperdine University, Malibu) Clegg
Hardback
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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 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2001
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- ISBN:9780521782432
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521782432
