Censorship and Cultural Sensibility : : The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England / / Debora Shuger.

In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political oppon...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "That Great and Immoderate Liberty of Lying"
  • Chapter 2. The Index and the English: Two Traditions ofEarly Modern Censorship
  • Chapter 3. Roman Law
  • Chapter 4. The Christian Transmission of Roman Law Iniuria
  • Chapter 5. The Law of All Civility
  • Chapter 6. Defendants' Rights and Poetic Justice
  • Chapter 7. Hermeneutics, History, and the Delegitimation of Censorship
  • Chapter 8. Intent
  • Chapter 9. Ideological Censorship
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments