Press Censorship in Elizabethan England

ISBN-13: 9780521573122 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 316 str.

Cyndia Susan Clegg

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… a deeply thoughtful and well-researched study which utilizes both textual and documentary evidence to unravel the complexities of censorship in early modern England - many of them for the first time - and which will provide essential reading for both literary scholars and historians alike'. The English Historical Review

Spis treści

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.