Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: D-G
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publish and Perish: The Practice of Censorship in the British Isles in the Early Modern Period
Author: Isabelle FernandesPublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739647
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The development of printing practices during Tudor rule led both to the dissemination of religious and secular knowledge, and the development of a legal arsenal to control it. While the vast majority of studies on censorship regard it as being at the origin of the notion of authorship, critics tend to disagree on its actual influence on early modern writings. Who, among the Church and the secular state, were its main supporters? Did it aim at destroying or removing, punishing or protecting, hampering or regulating? Did it propagate a culture of secrecy or, on the contrary, did it help to circulate new ideas and knowledge by controlling them and making them more acceptable to the masses? If the answers to these questions are bound to differ according to the aesthetic and religious biases of both censors and censored, they all lead to one major point of debate: did censorship really work to stop some marginal threat or did it simply improve the lot of early modern writers who turned its limited negative effects into a comforting shield of self-publicity? By suggesting it suppressed neither artistic creativity nor subversive practices, this volume analyses censorship in Britain and Ireland during the Tudor and Stuart periods as an instrument of regulation, rather than a repressive tool. Ideal for both graduate students and general readers interested in Early Modern History, the work sheds new light on a topic as fascinating as it is often misunderstood.
Fear, Exclusion and Revolution
Author: Jason McElligottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351936859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in Britain. Running to almost a million words his 'Entring Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious history. It charts the rise of British party politics, and the transformation of Puritanism into 'Whiggery' and Dissent. It provides a wealth of information on social and cultural history, as well as the relationships between the three Stuart kingdoms. All the essays in this volume have been inspired by the key concerns of the Entring Book: the palpable sense of the fear and foreboding in the 1680s; the long shadow cast by the mid-century civil war; the profound effect on Englishmen of events on the continent; and the anxieties and opportunities caused by a socially diffuse culture of news and information. In so doing they give a vivid sense of what it was like to live in England in the years before the Revolution and help to explain why that Revolution took place when it did, and why it took the particular form that it did. These chapters provide fresh and insightful perspectives on religion, politics and culture from established and emerging scholars on three continents. Taken together they offer a valuable introduction to the world of Roger Morrice, and will be an essential companion to the scholarly edition of the Entring Book.
A Catalogue, chronologically arranged, of a collection of rare and curious tracts relating to the seventeenth century, on sale by Beilby and Company, Booksellers
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Author: Thomas JolleyReligious Speech and the Quest for Freedoms in the Anglo-American World
Author: Wendell BirdPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316514730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Judeo-Christian believers demanded and ultimately brought us six major advances in freedom - speech and press, criminal rights and higher education, abolition and civil rights.
A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain (etc.)
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Printed Images in Early Modern Britain
Author: Michael HunterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351908863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circulated widely at the time. Yet, by comparison with printed texts, these images have been neglected, particularly by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British Printed Images to 1700 (www.bpi1700.org.uk), it offers a series of essays which exemplify the many ways in which such visual material can throw light on the history of the period. Ranging from religion to politics, polemic to satire, natural science to consumer culture, the collection explores how printed images need to be read in terms of the visual syntax understood by contemporaries, their full meaning often only becoming clear when they are located in the context in which they were produced and deployed. The result is not only to illustrate the sheer richness of material of this kind, but also to underline the importance of the messages which it conveys, which often come across more strongly in visual form than through textual commentaries. With contributions from many leading exponents of the cultural history of early modern Britain, including experts on religion, politics, science and art, the book's appeal will be equally wide, demonstrating how every facet of British culture in the period can be illuminated through the study of printed images.
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Author: John Russell Smith