The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715 : the communication of sin
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The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715 : the communication of sin
(Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history / series editors, David Armitage, Tim Harris, Stephen Taylor, v. 47)
Boydell Press, 2022
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-325) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A discussion of the fascinating interplay between communication, politics and religion in early modern England suggesting a new framework for the politics of print culture.
This book challenges the idea that the loss of pre-publication licensing in 1695 unleashed a free press on an unsuspecting political class, setting England on the path to modernity. England did not move from a position of complete control of the press to one of complete freedom. Instead, it moved from pre-publication censorship to post-publication restraint. Political and religious authorities and their agents continued to shape and manipulate information. Authors, printers, publishers and book agents were continually harassed. The book trade reacted by practicing self-censorship. At times of political calm, government and the book trade colluded in a policy of policing rather than punishment.
The Restraint of the Press in England problematizes the notion of the birth of modernity, a moment claimed by many prominent scholars to have taken place at the transition from the seventeenth into the eighteenth century. What emerges from this study is not a steady move to liberalism, democracy or modernity. Rather, after 1695, England was a religious and politically fractured society, in which ideas of the sovereignty of the people and the power of public opinion were being established and argued about.
目次
Preface: The Taxonomy of the Press
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: From Censorship to the Freedom of the Press
Part I: PROVIDENCE, SALVATION AND THE LAPSE OF LICENSING
1. The Politics of Coercion: Maintaining Truth
2. Christianity not Mysterious (1696): Deism and the Liberty of the Press
3. Letter to a Convocation Man (1696): Restraining the Press after the Lapse of Licensing
4. Legislation in the Late Seventeenth Century: Matthew Tindal, Francis Gregory and the Press
Part II: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND ECCLESIASTICAL IDENTITY
5. Legislation in the Early Eighteenth Century: Anonymity and the Press
6. High Churchmen and the Politics of the Press: Defining the Cause of Restraint
Part III: THE CHURCH IN DANGER
7. The Church in Danger: Prosecuting the Memorial (1705) and the Rights of the Christian Church (1706)
8. The Press and the Pulpit: Prosecuting Preaching
Conclusion: Partisan Loyalties
Bibliography
Index
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