Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521545860
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Censorship; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; Language Arts & Disciplines; Freedom of the press; Politics / Current Events; Publishing; Language; England; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Freedom of the press--Great Britain; Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishing; Political Science / Civil Rights; 16th century; 17th century; History; Press
First sentence: The recurrent images of violence in these early modern representations of censorship, conjoined with post-enlightenment privileging of individual freedom, have deeply colored the modern and postmodern construction of the cultural practice of press censorship in early modern England.