Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
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This is a revisionist history of press censorship in the rapidly expanding print culture of the sixteenth century. Clegg establishes the nature and source of the controls, and evaluates their means and effectiveness. By considering the literary and bibliographical evidence of books that were censored, and placing them in the literary, religious, economic and political culture of the time, Clegg concludes that press control was neither a routine nor a consistent mechanism. The book will become the standard reference work on Elizabethan press censorship.
- Extensive reconsideration of historical documents and subtle literary and bibliographical analysis of censored texts
- Emphasises the influence of the printing trade in seeking - and evading - controls
- A strong reference element and of interest to historians as well as literary critics
Reviews & endorsements
"Cyndia Susan Clegg has written a knowledgeable, detailed, and shrewd study of censorship during the reign of James I...her book has important implications for the ways in which both literary scholars and historians conceive of censorship and describe its effects." American Historical Review
"This study makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning History of the Book." Alan Stewart, Media History
"...a thoroughly researched and well documented contribution to an important field of study." Joad Raymond, Albion
"[Clegg's] carefully researched book revises liberal (and new-historicist) accounts of how authority responded to politically transgressive texts, and encourages us `to reconsider the cultural hegemony of the Elizabethan state' (pp. 218-9)." Studies in English Literature
"Clegg's familiarity with a range of English literatures dovetails nicely with her knack for historical narrative. This attention to individual cases fills the balance of her book and makes for absorbing reading." H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Product details
August 1997Hardback
9780521573122
316 pages
236 × 159 × 23 mm
0.56kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Practice of Censorship:
- 1. Privilege, license, and authority: the Crown and the press
- 2. Elizabethan press controls
- 3. Elizabethan censorship proclamations
- Part II. Censored Texts:
- 4. Catholic propagandists
- 5. George Gascoigne and the rhetoric of censorship
- 6. John Stubbs's The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf and realpolitik
- 7. The review and reform of Holinshed's Chronicles
- 8. Martin Marprelate and the puritan press
- 9. The 1599 bishops' ban
- 10. Conclusion.
