Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England : The Subtle Art of Division /
Robertson, Randy
Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England : The Subtle Art of Division / Randy Robertson. - 1 online resource (288 p.) - Penn State Series in the History of the Book .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 ‘‘Consider What May Come of It’’: Prynne’s Play and Charles’s Stately Theater -- 2 Lovelace and the ‘‘Barbed Censurers’’ -- 3 Free Speech, Fallibility, and the Public Sphere: Milton Among the Skeptics -- 4 The Delicate Arts of Anonymity and Attribution -- 5 The Battle of the Books: Swift’s Leviathan and the End of Licensing -- Conclusion: Dividing Lines—1689, 1695, and Afterward -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271036557
10.1515/9780271036557 doi
Censorship--History--17th century--England.
Censorship--History--England--17th century.
English literature--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Politics and literature--History--17th century--Great Britain--England--Great Britain.
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--17th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
England. Robertson. authors. censorship. conflict. division. language. licensing system. literature. modern writing. printers. publishers. representation.
363.310942/09032
Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England : The Subtle Art of Division / Randy Robertson. - 1 online resource (288 p.) - Penn State Series in the History of the Book .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 ‘‘Consider What May Come of It’’: Prynne’s Play and Charles’s Stately Theater -- 2 Lovelace and the ‘‘Barbed Censurers’’ -- 3 Free Speech, Fallibility, and the Public Sphere: Milton Among the Skeptics -- 4 The Delicate Arts of Anonymity and Attribution -- 5 The Battle of the Books: Swift’s Leviathan and the End of Licensing -- Conclusion: Dividing Lines—1689, 1695, and Afterward -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271036557
10.1515/9780271036557 doi
Censorship--History--17th century--England.
Censorship--History--England--17th century.
English literature--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Politics and literature--History--17th century--Great Britain--England--Great Britain.
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain--17th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
England. Robertson. authors. censorship. conflict. division. language. licensing system. literature. modern writing. printers. publishers. representation.
363.310942/09032