Author : Geoff Kemp
Publisher : Pickering & Chatto Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781781445273
Total Pages : 1956 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)
Book Synopsis Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720 by : Geoff Kemp
Download or read book Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720 written by Geoff Kemp and published by Pickering & Chatto Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 1956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reset edition equips scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. It draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of Cato's Letters, which famously advanced principles of free speech. The edition gives voice to those on both sides of the censorship debate, allowing proponents and opponents of free speech to speak for themselves. Primary sources range from printed statutes, royal proclamations and trial accounts, to books, pamphlets and newspapers, to manuscripts and letters. Despite the vitality of the censorship debate during the seventeenth century, much of the original sources are unavailable to modern scholars. This edition conveys a sense for historic texts as deeds rather than disembodied ideas, reinforcing the physicality which makes book-burning such a symbolic event. New editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes, and a consolidated index in the final volume. The edition will be essential for those studying Early Modern Studies, History of Journalism, History of Printing, Political History and the History of Censorship.