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Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England

Author : Randy Robertson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271036559
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England written by Randy Robertson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Matter of Obscenity

Author : Christopher Hilliard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226105
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.

Licensing, Censorship, and Authorship in Early Modern England

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333721841
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Licensing, Censorship, and Authorship in Early Modern England written by Richard Dutton and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines in detail both how the practice of censorship shaped writing in the Shakespearean period, and how our sense of that censorship continues to shape modern understandings of what was written. Separate chapters trace the development of licensing in the theatre, and the response of the actors and dramatists to it. There are detailed examinations of how censorship affects our reading of four major playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Middleton, and of how the control of printed books compared with that of the stage.

Press Censorship in Caroline England

Author : Cyndia Susan Clegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521182850
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Press Censorship in Caroline England by : Cyndia Susan Clegg

Download or read book Press Censorship in Caroline England written by Cyndia Susan Clegg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1625 and 1640, a distinctive cultural awareness of censorship emerged, which ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of Caroline censorship as either draconian or benign. Such contradictions transpire because the Caroline regime and its critics employed similar rhetorical strategies that depended on the language of orthodoxy, order, tradition, and law, but to achieve different ends. Building on her two previous studies on press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg scrutinizes all aspects of Caroline print culture: book production in London, the universities, and on the Continent; licensing and authorization practices in both the Stationers' Company and among the ecclesiastical licensers; cases before the courts of High Commission and Star Chamber and the Stationers' Company's Court of Assistants; and trade regulation.

The Censorship of British Drama, 1900-1968: The Sixties

Author : Steve Nicholson
Publisher : Exeter Performance Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781905816439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Censorship of British Drama, 1900-1968: The Sixties written by Steve Nicholson and published by Exeter Performance Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016 This is the final volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's definitive four-volume survey of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material, covering the period 1960-1968. This brings to its conclusion the first comprehensive research on the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives for the 20th century. The 1960s was a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre. As certainties shifted and social divisions widened, a new generation of theatre makers arrived, ready to sweep away yesterday's conventions and challenge the establishment. Analysis exposes the political and cultural implications of a powerful elite exerting pressure in an attempt to preserve the veneer of a polite, unquestioning society. This new edition includes a contextualising timeline for those readers who are unfamiliar with the period, and a new preface. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/TGOJ9339

Censorship and Cultural Sensibility

Author : Debora Shuger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203348
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Censorship and Cultural Sensibility written by Debora Shuger and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of why no one prior to the mid-1640s argued for free speech or a free press per se, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility surveys the texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns, which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels, conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship illegitimate. Virtually all substantive law on language concerned defamation, regulating what one could say about other people. Hence Tudor-Stuart laws extended protection only to the person hurt by another's words, never to their speaker. In treating transgressive language as akin to battery, English law differed fundamentally from papal censorship, which construed its target as heresy. There were thus two models of censorship operative in the early modern period, both premised on religious norms, but one concerned primarily with false accusation and libel, the other with false belief and immorality. Shuger investigates the first of these models—the dominant English one—tracing its complex origins in the Roman law of iniuria through medieval theological ethics and Continental jurisprudence to its continuities and discontinuities with current U.S. law. In so doing, she enables her reader to grasp how in certain contexts censorship could be understood as safeguarding both charitable community and personal dignitary rights.

Censorship & the Control of Print

Author : Robin Myers
Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Censorship & the Control of Print written by Robin Myers and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medium of print has always been identified as a crucial element in the exercise of power. Since the invention of printing a combination of interests - political, religious and cultural - have borne down on the Press in an attempt to shape and contain its output. Each stage of the production and distribution of printed material can be seen as a battlefield of competing ideologies, whether organized through such institutions as the Stationers' Company, Parliament, and the lending library, or represented by broad divisions within society at large. In this collection of essays leading scholars investigate the interaction between authors, publishers, booksellers, readers and regulatory bodies in England and France across three centuries, and show the key role that the book trade - resisting or adapting to external pressure - has played in defining what is permissible to publish. - See more at: http://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/37463/robin-myers-michael-harris/censorship-and-the-control-of-print-in-england-and-france-1600-1910#sthash.LH8UYKGk.dpuf -- Publisher's website.

Censorship in England

Author : Frank Fowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Censorship in England written by Frank Fowell and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with stage censorship.

The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization

Author : Iwan Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization written by Iwan Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Censorship and Interpretation

Author : Annabel M. Patterson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299099541
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Censorship and Interpretation written by Annabel M. Patterson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annabel Patterson explores the effects of censorship on both writing and reading in early modern England, drawing analogies and connections with France during the same period.

Censorship in England

Author : Frank Palmer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021468093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Censorship in England written by Frank Palmer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide to the history of censorship in England, this volume explores the various forms of censorship that have been employed over the centuries and the societal and political forces that have shaped them. The work includes a detailed examination of the censorship of literature and the arts, as well as an analysis of the contemporary debates surrounding free speech and expression. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Press Censorship in Jacobean England

Author : Cyndia Susan Clegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521033534
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Press Censorship in Jacobean England written by Cyndia Susan Clegg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. Cyndia Clegg contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with the reading of censored texts and will be an invaluable resource for scholars as well as historians.

Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429684207
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature written by Sophie Chiari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In early modern England, the Privy Council, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Stationers’ Company, and the Master of the Revels each dealt with their own prerogatives and implemented different forms of censorship, with the result that authors penning both plays and satires had to juggle with various authorities and unequal degrees of freedom from one sector to the other. Text and press control thus did not give way to systematic intervention but to particular responses adapted to specific texts in a specific time. If the restrictions imposed by regulation practices are duly acknowledged in this edited collection, the different contributors are also keen to enhance the positive impact of censorship on early modern literature. The most difficult task consists in finding the exact moment when the balance tips in favour of creativity, and the zone where, in matters of artistic freedom, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. This is what the twelve chapters of the volume proceed to do. Thanks to a wide variety of examples, they show that, in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, regulations seldom prevented writers to make themselves heard, albeit through indirect channels. By contrast, in the 1630s, the increased supremacy of the Church seemed to tip the balance the other way.

Banned Books: Censorship in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : Anastasia Castillo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640716884
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Banned Books: Censorship in Eighteenth-Century England written by Anastasia Castillo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Münster (Englische Philologie), language: English, abstract: The historical development of censorship is parallel to the evolution of our civilization. If one talks about censorship as a type of social control then one is "overstretching" the concept of the word, as there are a wide variety of social control measures. Thus, breeding can be regarded as censorship or God's verdict about a forbidden fruit can also be considered as a censorship act. But, since the focal point of this paper is literary censorship, a narrower meaning of the term, such as book censorship, is required. Traditionally, book censorship has been seen as a control over printed expression by authorities, and mostly by the church or government. Alec Craig emphasizes that "it is writing rather than speech that attracts authoritative attention and social pressures because it is so much more enduring and effective; and books have been subject to control of some sort wherever they have been an important medium of communication." The earliest examples of such regulations can already be found in Ancient Rome and Greece, where the works of Ovid and Socrates were suppressed, or in China, where the writings of Confucius were banned and burned by order of the emperor. However, these censorship measures were not of systematical character, and authorities in the ancient world failed to institutionalize this practice of book suppression. Not until the invention of the printing press and a consequential wide spread adoption in the usage of printing books, especially during the Reformation, was it necessary for the authorities to create a system of sharp control of the written word. It is widely known that literature is one of the richest sources that contains the knowledge of social consciousness. It portrays the impression of social norms and values as well as mod

Censorship in England (Classic Reprint)

Author : Frank Fowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330920060
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Censorship in England (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Fowell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Censorship in England In one of our royal palaces you may, after inquiry, be directed to a certain room whose prosaic furnishings call for no special mention. Here you shall - if your visit be well timed - discover a gentleman, equally prosaic, whose amiable and inoffensive features suggest nothing of the stupendous responsibility with which he is invested. This gentleman is popularly known as the Stage Censor, and his duty is understood to be that of guarding the morals of a great nation from the more or less insidious attacks of dramatists and theatre-managers. The ripest product of whatever genius our nation can boast must, in company with the merest paste-pot pantomime, pass under the mild eyes of this curious potentate, and be shorn at his command of whatever offends him. What actually happens in that room? How and when did it come to pass that a chair and a table and a man were first provided for the censorship of plays? Upon what principle is this gentleman selected? What are his qualifications? What instructions are given to him? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Long Time Burning

Author : Donald Thomas
Publisher : New York : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Long Time Burning written by Donald Thomas and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Half the battle

Author : Robert Mackay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795358
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Half the battle written by Robert Mackay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This book rejects contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented at the time and in hundreds of books and films ever since. While acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviour existed—panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering—it argues that these involved a very small minority of the population. In fact, most people behaved well, and this should be the real measure of civilian morale, rather than the failing of the few who behaved badly. The book shows that although before the war, the official prognosis was pessimistic, measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of indicative factors concludes that moral fluctuated but was in the main good, right to the end of the war. In examining this phenomenon, due credit is accorded to government policies for the maintenance of morale, but special emphasis is given to the ‘invisible chain’ of patriotic feeling that held the nation together during its time of trial.