Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England : The Subtle Art of Division (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

Robertson, Randy

Pennsylvania State University Press（2012/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780271058801
• DDC分類 363.310942

Full Description

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.

Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: From Fourth Estate to Fourth Enemy

Part 1

1 The Fourth Estate

2 Journalism and Power in the Impossible Republic

Part 2

3 The Triumph of Silence

4 Journalism as Labor Power

5 Scenes from the Press Wars

Part 3

6 The Die Is Cast

7 The Fourth Enemy

Conclusion: Journalism and Power in the New Argentina

Notes

Bibliography

Index