Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Hardcover)

This is a revisionist history of press censorship in the rapidly expanding print culture of the sixteenth century. Professor Clegg establishes the nature and source of the controls, and evaluates their means and effectiveness. The state wanted to control the burgeoning press, but there were difficulties in practice because of the competing and often contradictory interests of the Crown, the Church, and the printing trade. By considering the literary and bibliographical evidence of books actually censored and by placing them in the literary, religious, economic and political culture of the time, Clegg concludes that press control was not a routine nor a consistent mechanism but an individual response to particular texts that the state perceived as dangerous. This will be the standard reference work on Elizabethan press censorship, and is also a history of the Elizabethan state's principal crises.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Cyndia Susan Clegg
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-57312-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Censorship Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	0-521-57312-2
Barcode:	9780521573122

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