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Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
2015,2009
Overview
Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing.
Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and
investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on
seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the
1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a
king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among
crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to
define \"liberty and property.\" This battle, sometimes subtle,
sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language
and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of
this \"censorship contest\" and of the craft that writers employed to
outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory,
not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book
differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of
early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system
produced-the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the
issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of
the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a
regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant
on anonymity.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
/ Authors
/ Censorship -- England -- History -- 17th century
/ Conflict
/ division
/ England
/ English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
/ Freedom
/ History
/ HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
/ HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
/ Language
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
/ Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
/ printers
/ Property
/ Rights
ISBN
0271034661, 9780271034669, 9780271036557, 0271036559
