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Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable,
significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England.
Whilst there has been regular, if often cursory, scholarly interest
in his activities as Licenser and Stuart apologist, this is the
first sustained book-length study of the man for almost a century.
L'Estrange's engagement on the Royalist side during the Civil war,
and his energetic pamphleteering for the return of the King in the
months preceding the Restoration earned him a reputation as one of
the most radical royalist apologists. As Licenser for the Press
under Charles II, he was charged with preventing the printing and
publication of dissenting writings; his additional role as Surveyor
of the Press authorised him to search the premises of printers and
booksellers on the mere suspicion of such activity. He was also a
tireless pamphleteer, journalist, and controversialist in the
conformist cause, all of which made him the bAte noire of Whigs and
non-conformists. This collection of essays by leading scholars of
the period highlights the instrumental role L'Estrange played in
the shaping of the political, literary, and print cultures of the
Restoration period. Taking an interdisciplinary approach the volume
covers all the major aspects of his career, as well as situating
them in their broader historical and literary context. By examining
his career in this way the book offers insights that will prove of
worth to political, social, religious and cultural historians, as
well as those interested in seventeenth-century literary and book
history.
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