Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 4

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 4
Author: Geoff Kemp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2024-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040244084

Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech.

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 1

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 1
Author: Geoff Kemp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2024-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 104025120X

Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech.

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2
Author: Geoff Kemp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040244092

Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech.

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 3

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 3
Author: Geoff Kemp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040244017

Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech.

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 4

Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 4
Author: Geoff Kemp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138751514

Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech.

Making News

Making News
Author: Richard R. John
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191663743

How can the news business be re-envisioned in a rapidly changing world? Can market incentives and technological imperatives provide a way forward? How important have been the institutional arrangements that protected the production and distribution of news in the past? Making News charts the institutional arrangements that news providers in Britain and America have relied on since the late seventeenth century to facilitate the production and distribution of news. It is organized around eight original essays: each written by a distinguished specialist, and each explicitly comparative. Seven chapters survey the shifting institutional arrangements that facilitated the production and distribution of news in Britain and America in the period between 1688 and 1995. An eighth chapter surveys the news business following the commercialization of the Internet, while the epilogue links past, present, and future. Its theme is the indispensability in both Great Britain and the United States of non-market institutional arrangements in the provisioning of news. Only rarely has advertising revenue and direct sales covered costs. Almost never has the demand for news generated the revenue necessary for its supply. The presumption that the news business can flourish in a marketplace of ideas has long been a civic ideal. In practice, however, the emergence of a genuinely competitive marketplace for the production and distribution of news has limited the resources for high-quality news reporting. For the production of high-quality journalism is a byproduct less of the market, than of its supersession. And, in particular, it has long depended on the acquiescence of lawmakers in market-limiting business strategies that have transformed journalism in the past, and that will in all likelihood transform it once again in the future.

Enforcing and Eluding Censorship

Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
Author: Giovanni Iamartino
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1443869139

Enforcing and Eluding Censorship: British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives brings together a wide range of current work on literary, cultural and linguistic censorship by a team of fifteen contributors working in Italy, Britain and continental Europe. Censorship can take hold of a written text before or after its public appearance; it can strike the cultural item, as well as the very individual/s who created it; it can also catch in its net the agents responsible for its publication and diffusion (in the case of a printed text, authors, editors, printers, publishers, librarians and booksellers). It can be directed against a single person or against a group, an organization, a political party, or a religious confession. The different “ways of censorship” – how it was enforced or eluded in the Italian or Anglo-American worlds, and often in their mutual relations – are the topic of this volume, whose contents are divided into two main sections. The first, entitled “Discourse Regulation”, discusses instances of institutionalized and regulatory censorship and, conversely, forms of reaction against pressure and control. The second section, entitled “Textual and Ideological Manipulations”, debates some of the ways in which cultural products can be used to exert censorial influence upon society; among these, it shows how language and descriptions of language may provide a biased view of reality. All in all, the chapters in this volume highlight a notion of censorship that defies strict boundaries and definitions, thus challenging received ideas on cultural practices.

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Paddy Bullard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107244641

Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge
Author: Louisiane Ferlier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-07-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004433678

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the authority of print in all its shapes in the British book trade (1688-1832). The transdisciplinary volume skilfully recovers the innovations and practices of a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience.

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
Author: Lorna Hutson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0191081973

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics, and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire.