TY - BOOK AU - Robertson,Randy TI - Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England: The Subtle Art of Division T2 - Penn State Series in the History of the Book SN - 9780271036557 U1 - 363.310942/09032 22 PY - 2015///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - Censorship KW - History KW - 17th century KW - England KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Politics and literature KW - Great Britain KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading KW - bisacsh KW - Robertson KW - authors KW - censorship KW - conflict KW - division KW - language KW - licensing system KW - literature KW - modern writing KW - printers KW - publishers KW - representation N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271036557?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271036557 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271036557/original ER -