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Press Censorship in Jacobean England

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Author: Cyndia Susan Clegg, Pepperdine University, Malibu

Date Published: February 2007
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521033534

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This book examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. Cyndia Clegg contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with the reading of censored texts and will be an invaluable resource for scholars as well as historians.
- Builds on Clegg's earlier study, published by Cambridge University Press in 1997, which was well reviewed and has become a standard reference
- Challenges prevailing attitudes about press censorship in Jacobean England
- Provides an interplay between rich historical narrative and a discussion of censorship
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"A learned and sophisticated study.... these case studies are impressively well researched and historiographically astute. Historians and critics will learn much them." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Clegg's argument is subtle and sophisticated, and the motives behind press control to which she draws attention are of undoubted importance. Its contextualized approach needs to be taken seriously by all who are interested in press censorship and in early modern political history." Canadian Journal of History
"... no future study will be able to ignore its comprehensive analysis on the subject." Albion
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Product details
- Date Published: February 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033534
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.448kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Jacobean press censorship and the 'unsatisfying impasse' in the historiography of Stuart England
1. Authority, license and law: the theory and practice of censorship
2. Burning books as propaganda
3. The personal use of censorship in 'the wincy age'
4. Censorship and the confrontation between prerogative and privilege
5. The press and foreign policy, 1619–24: 'all eies are directed upon Bohemia'
6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship and the rhetoric of silence
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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Cyndia Susan Clegg, Pepperdine University, Malibu
Cyndia Susan Clegg is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Pepperdine University. She is the author of Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Peaceable and Prosperous Reign of our Blessed Queene Elizabeth (2001).