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The Restraint Of The Press In England 16601715 The Communication Of Sin Studies In Early Modern Cultural Political And Social History 47 Alex W Barber

Name: The Restraint Of The Press In England 16601715 The Communication Of Sin Studies In Early Modern Cultural Political And Social History 47 Alex W Barber
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The Restraint Of The Press In England 16601715 The Communication Of Sin Studies In Early Modern Cultural Political And Social History 47 Alex W Barber

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The Restraint Of The Press In England 16601715 The Communication Of Sin Studies In Early Modern Cultural Political And Social History 47 Alex W Barber instant download after payment.

Publisher: Boydell Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 6.88 MB

Author: Alex W. Barber

ISBN: 9781783275175, 9781787448766, 1783275170, 1787448762

Language: English

Year: 2022

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The Restraint Of The Press In England 16601715 The Communication Of Sin Studies In Early Modern Cultural Political And Social History 47 Alex W Barber by Alex W. Barber 9781783275175, 9781787448766, 1783275170, 1787448762 instant download after payment.

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.