Press Censorship in Caroline England - Softcover

Clegg, Cyndia Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521182859 ISBN 13: 9780521182850

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description

Following her two previous studies of press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg takes the story through the next volatile period. She explores the distinctive culture of censorship that emerged between 1625 and 1640, and ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control.

About the Author

Cyndia Susan Clegg is Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521182859
• ISBN 13: 9780521182850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298