Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. Cyndia Clegg contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with the reading of censored texts and will be an invaluable resource for scholars as well as historians.
Review
"A learned and sophisticated study.... these case studies are impressively well researched and historiographically astute. Historians and critics will learn much them." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Clegg's argument is subtle and sophisticated, and the motives behind press control to which she draws attention are of undoubted importance. Its contextualized approach needs to be taken seriously by all who are interested in press censorship and in early modern political history." Canadian Journal of History"... no future study will be able to ignore its comprehensive analysis on the subject." Albion
Synopsis
Examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received in Jacobean England.
Description
Includes biblioraphical references (p. 269-276) and index.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Jacobean press censorship and the âunsatisfying impasseâin the historiography of Stuart England; 1. Authority, license and law: the theory and practice of censorship; 2. Burning books as propaganda; 3. The personal use of censorship in 'the wincy age'; 4. Censorship and the confrontation between prerogative and privilege; 5. The press and foreign policy, 1619 1624: âall eies are directed upon Bohemiaâ; 6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship and the rhetoric of silence; Afterword; Notes; Biblioraphy; Index.